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Mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things

As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes increasingly ubiquitous, organisations from all industries are beginning to explore ways to develop and utilise… More

30 November 2018

Zanele Mukhobu, CFIRM, Director, Enterprise Risk Management, Gauteng Department of Human Settlement has recently been awarded the highest grade of membership by the Institute of Risk Management by completing the Senior Executive Route. She is… More

by Mark Turner The Innovation Special Interest Group (ISIG) of the IRM revealed the first copies of the Horizon Scanning: A Practitioners Guide at the 2018 IRM Risk Leaders conference in London.… More

Only 10 per cent of banks are taking a strategic view of climate change – with an average planning horizon of just four years, according to Transition in thinking: The impact of… More

Non-compliance with trade sanctions increasingly attracts severe penalties for organisations, according to a recent IRM and Lexis Nexis webinar. While the effectiveness of sanctions themselves has been debated in some quarters, the… More

The UK government has published more than 100 technical notices advising businesses and the public on preparing for a ‘no deal’ Brexit. While the government states that “a scenario in which the… More

Cybersecurity is the single biggest risk organisations are likely to face over the next year, according to the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing’s (ECIIA) annual Risk in Focus 2019 report.… More

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Big data: big risk

29 October 2018

Hot on the heels of this year’s new general data protection regulation (GDPR), the UK government has identified business use of ‘big data’ as another potential area for legislation. The term ‘big… More

Artificial intelligence promises to transform the risk profession for both good and bad, as delegates at an IRM Innovation special interest group (SIG) workshop in London heard recently. The session, hosted by… More

With 90 per cent of the world's trade transported via the shipping industry, the growth of global supply chains means that organisations naturally take an extreme interest in the safety and security… More