Business Continuity Oversight, Assurance & Governance: do you know your capabilities?
A business continuity capability statement can be a useful resource for a number of reasons: It provides a central point of reference for...
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Steve Dance
- Nov 3
- 2 min
Risk Assessment: A Weapon of self-deception?
The problem with any risk assessment approach whether qualitative or quantitive, lies in estimating the scope (how widespread the outcome...
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Steve Dance
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Apples, Pears & Understanding Exposure
Understanding Exposure: Value at risk vs observation & judgement There’s a school of thought that the concept of value at risk or “VaR”...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
Cyber attack risk - just follow the money
"Follow the money" is a familiar phrase most often associated with identifying the culprits of fraud and financial crime. But it's also...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 30, 2022
- 5 min
Exposed to shocks?
Does putting a numerical "score" on a risk register entry (or a grade like Red, Amber, Green or High, Medium, Low) really mean anything?...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
Risk registers: they don't cover everything
For many organisations, developing a risk register is seen as a destination - and it should not be. Often, the corporate risk register...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Cyber attack recovery: it's never over until it's over
Recovering from a cyber attack can be one of the greatest challenges an organisation can face. Successful attacks can result in ransom...
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Steve Dance
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
6 things every senior exec should know about their organisation's business continuity
Senior execs don't need to know the details of how to go about building business continuity capabilities for their organisation - that's...
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Steve Dance
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Facebook & WhatsApp's Disappearing Act (in plain English)
Billions of users all over the world experienced a major loss of service from both Facebook and WhatsApp on Monday, 4th October. There...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Remote working - business as usual?
Many UK businesses have adopted remote working as the only operating alternative during the lockdown. The experience of having the vast...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 8, 2021
- 7 min
Resilience: Business Continuity in disguise?
For many - (including me), much of what is described as resilience still looks suspiciously like “warmed up” business continuity. ...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
Operational Risk appetite - difficult to swallow?
High, medium or low? What does it mean? Does anyone know? This concept of risk appetite as a means to set a risk management strategy has,...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
Building total recall through Business Continuity Micro-simulations
Micro simulations work on the basis of short. highly focused tests on one specific aspects of incident response. Their focus tends to be...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
Choosing a GOOD Business Continuity Plan Template
Three things make a good continuity business continuity template: 1. It’s intended purpose 2. It’s design 3. Maintenance consideration...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Operational Risk Framework : UK financial regulators provide final clarification
Following the publication of the final policy in March 2021, although the final operational resilience framework does not depart...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 2, 2021
- 2 min
Business Continuity Organisational Structure
Building the Business Continuity Organisation How do we ensure that our business continuity plans are deployed, maintained and stay...
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Steve Dance
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Ransomware attack hits insurance company
Insurance firm One Call has reported that it had been hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted its core IT systems, forcing the company...
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Steve Dance
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
7 Business Continuity Plan Testing Scenarios
1) Data loss Let’s start with one of the most common workplace disasters today: a loss of data. This loss could be caused by a number of...
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