Managing uncertainty is an essential aspect of organizational and business resilience and a new guide by the UK National Audit Office (NAO) provides a useful resource for this area.
Resilience Resources
The National Resilience Guidance ‘offers a unifying vision of resilience and the principles and steps all communities and organizations can take to increase their resilience in every sector and discipline’.
Lack of challenge to risk management and compliance decisions is a risk in its own right, with teams failing to challenge bad decisions if the setting it not conducive to this.
The Cloud Security Alliance’s AI Technology and Risk Working Group has released a new guidance document covering the design of authorization practices for the use of large language models (LLMs).
As organizations increasingly decentralise and adopt diverse technologies, the traditional security operations centre / center (SOC) model is struggling to keep pace with the expanding attack surface and volume of data to be monitored and protected. This shift necessitates a reimagining of SOCs to remain effective and agile amidst ever-evolving threats and business landscapes. In this article, James Todd explores how to design a future-ready SOC, proposing a new reference architecture to tackle these challenges.
The Institute of Directors New Zealand has released a new resource to help boards understand AI. The guide aims to help directors develop and improve governance and risk management of this area.
The Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) AI Technology and Risk Working Group has developed a new document that explores the role of AI-powered tools in reshaping offensive security strategies.
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) has published ‘Business Resilience Guide: Reducing Risks and Building on Strengths’, providing a resource to help small businesses plan and recover from disasters.
The UK Government Cabinet Office has published ‘Organisational Resilience Guidance for UK Government Departments, Agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies’.
Robert Hall looks at the foundational elements of resilience and explains how they enable an entity to bounce forward in times of disruption, crisis, and change.