by Alex W. | May 15, 2015 | Big data, Cybersecurity, management and leadership, Organisations, Resilience
Complexity and Resilience How do organisations develop resilience in the complex environment that is the 21st century information centric world? The lifeblood of the modern organisation is information. Every organisation, from small business to government department...
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. | 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...
by Alex W. | Aug 23, 2013 | Organisations, Resilience
A biological approach to organisational resilience By a lapsed microbiologist “Organisational resilience is only achievable through adaptability” Too many leaders start believing their own press and thinking that they are able to predict the future....
by Alex W. | Oct 3, 2012 | Community and Society, management and leadership, Organisations
On the face of it, complex systems might have more resilience than those that are simple because they can have more safeguards built-in and more redundancy. However, this is not supported by real world observation. Simply put, more complexity means more things can go...
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