Continuity Forum
Continuity Forum
Founding Member & Secretariat
The Continuity Forum provides independent advice, information and support to the private and public sectors covering all the issues and challenges of Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Security with the aim of improving organisational resilience in the UK and internationally.
We are an independent NGO that specialises in providing practical information, assistance and guidance to organisations of all types needing to create effective Business Continuity Management and Resilience.
Financial effect of a Cyber Breach - What Target tells us
Learning from Targets experience
In the run up to Christmas the US retailer Target (TGT) found itself victim of a data theft with some 70 million customers credit details involved and once the news was out the effect on the business was immediate.
High profile negative media coverage on Target filled news pages just as it needed customers to open wallets and spend.
Legal week, share prices and cyber hygiene
In a recent Legal Week article the authors consider how Cyber Risk regulation is set to become tighter in the near future with a greater responsibility placed on organisations to have measures in place to secure data and protect processes. In the article it points to research in the US that indicates relatively high levels of torpor in organisations that really should know better.