With the advent of GDPR, risk managers are already advised to undertake risk assessments to ensure technical and organisational measures are robust enough to secure their data. However, new research by security software provider Check Point has found a Read more

In July, the government announced a consultation on proposed policies governing the use of drones. Any subsequent draft Drone Bill could cover the powers required by enforcement bodies to police drone usage and penalise owners for improper use, Read more

Use tabletop exercises to stress-test your business continuity management and make sure critical personnel are familiar with the BCM recovery plans.

The wildfires wreaking havoc from Southern Europe to Scandinavia to California offer a timely reminder that natural disasters Read more

Political risk, new technologies and business ethics will all be high on the agenda at the IRM’s Risk Leaders event in November, with keynote speakers and workshop leaders drawn from across the corporate world and academia.

This annual conference Read more

More and more firms are now putting low probability catastrophic risks higher on their agenda. According to the authors of a recently published book, the reason for this is simple: these events are happening more often.

Howard Kunreuther and Read more

In April this year, the IRM’s Internal Model Industry Forum (IMIF) released a report which outlined how insurance companies can factor operational risk into their insurance purchasing decisions – and many of its points are relevant to risk managers Read more

How chief risk officers help strategy and finance think and fund big.

In business, risk is like cholesterol. There are good and bad strains. Just like in health news, where bad cholesterol makes the headlines, the negative risks that Read more