by Alex W. | Mar 23, 2016 | management and leadership, Organisations, Practical, Resilience
Have you ever wondered why on your electricity bill there is a representation of your household’s usage against the average 2, 3 or 4-person household telling you whether you are over or under? How does it make you feel? The term behavioural economics has been around...
by Alex W. | Jun 4, 2014 | Community and Society, Organisations, Resilience
Resilience for organisations is bound to their adaptability to climate change both in the short and long term. A review of US public companies shows a number of climate related risks and costs. Their ability to adapt and become resilient to climate change is starting...
by Alex W. | Dec 9, 2013 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Organisations
ENISA has released a good practice guide for CERTs that are tasked with protecting industrial control systems (SCADA). The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) publishes a lot of advice and recommendations on good practice in information...
by Alex W. | Sep 6, 2013 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Government large and small
Have the NSA and GCHQ been building vulnerabilities into commercial encryption products? If this is true, another argument for open source software has been made. Articles in the New York Times and the Guardian alleged that the N.S.A. has been deliberately weakening...
by Alex W. | Aug 30, 2013 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Organisations, Resilience
News that the New York Times was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army is interesting not because of the fact that NYT was hacked by the hacking group, but by the method of gaining access. According to this article, information security at the NYT fell over because...
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