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The leading cyber threats to UK businesses last year were ransomware attacks, data breaches, supply chain threats and fake news stories, according to the 2017/18 report from the National Cyber Security Centre… More

Discussions at an IRM infrastructure special interest group meeting have highlighted hot topics for the sector, including embedding risk management across an organisation, dealing with uncertainty and differing levels of complexity, and… More

The IRM has published a guide to help risk managers navigate the newly revised ISO 31000 standard –A risk practitioner’s guide to ISO 31000: 2018. The overhaul of the standard was released at… More

Organisations and individuals could do more to improve their gender diversity – and in doing so potentially benefit their business – according to attendees at the IRM’s ‘Women in risk’ roundtable event… More

The Infrastructure SIG recently organised a meeting at the Shard in London, for over 35 risk professionals who work primarily in major rail, aviation, public utility and road programmes to discuss key… More

The IRM has announced that Socrates Coudounaris, CFIRM will step up from his position of deputy chair of the board when the current chair, Nicola Crawford, CFIRM, steps down in early May,… More

In the IRM’s Risk agenda 2025 survey, there were two seemingly incompatible findings – that the number of risk managers is expected to go up, but also that the increased use of… More

While the winter storms that hit the UK and Europe in the last week of February may have temporarily raised the spectre of traditional risks to business continuity, these are still being… More

Spreadsheets and other end-user controlled applications (EUCs) are core elements in most companies' financial reporting and operational processes. What is alarming is that one inadvertent error in these critical files can have… More