The short answer is ‘yes’. Boards should be very concerned. Cyber risk is a growing threat for all organisations. If an organisation has not already suffered a cyber attack it…
Category: Risk Management
Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome
Viral epidemics have been part of human civilisation for centuries. Black Death in the fourteenth and Plague in the seventeenth, are only the most famous but there were many more…
Political risk & the right strategy
Selecting the right risk mitigation strategy is always a matter of choice, the future is uncertain and the default human response tends to be risk aversion. Some uncertainties can be…
Risk – how do you see your future in the glass
Risk as a management discipline gets a poor press. Like a hapless government agency it often appears that it has been set up to fail, due to unrealistic expectations of…
Existential risk – should we take notice?
The current pandemic has raised the question about existential risk and our response to it. What exactly is an existential threat anyway? The literal answer is anything that impacts our…
Covid-19: could we see it coming?
I have been searching for predictions of coronavirus to see if this was foreseen by anyone. I haven’t come up with anything yet but a few people have pointed to…