You have worked hard to ensure supply chains are diversified – yet in practice, when you look past tier one, those suppliers all run back to the same manufacturer, site or raw material. And that means it only takes a single failure to spell disaster for the entire system.
Business interruption claims are becoming more expensive, even as their frequency remains relatively stable. New analysis from Allianz Commercial highlights how concentrated production, rising recovery costs and dependence on critical suppliers are magnifying the financial consequences of disruption.
A run of attacks on Japanese logistics and distribution companies shows how quickly one breach can empty shelves when supply chains carry almost no slack
Food, beverage and agriculture businesses are formalising continuity plans, but confidence has fallen as risks spread across operations and gaps in resources and insurance protection persist.
Melanie Garson, associate professor in international security at University College London, explains why businesses need to prepare for crises that converge and compound, and how scenario planning can strengthen resilience.
David Ferbrache of Beyond Blue argues that as geopolitical conflict increasingly spills into the digital domain, organisations in critical supply chains must prepare for destructive cyber attacks designed to disrupt, disable and destabilise.
The SR:500 Emerging Risks survey reveals a landscape dominated by accelerating and interconnected threats. Against this backdrop, risk management must be embedded earlier in decision making to strengthen resilience.
The compounding shocks created by climate change were the topic of our latest SR:500 roundtable. Organisations are being forced to reassess their long-held assumptions about resilience, continuity and operational risk as they navigate the road ahead.
Risk leaders have never been closer to the top table. The opportunity now is to translate that proximity into genuine strategic influence, and the profession is better placed to do it than at any point in its history, says Alex Bentley, CEO, Clew
As regulatory frameworks such as NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act begin to overlap, organisations face mounting pressure to rethink how governance, risk and compliance operates in practice. Riskonnect’s Sherry Dillon explains why traditional compliance approaches are no longer enough.
Four risk experts explore how organisations can quantify risk against business objectives, demonstrate the return on investment of risk management and use AI and modern GRC tools to support better strategic decisions, while retaining the human judgement needed to turn data into meaningful insight.
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As nat cats grow more severe, insurance gaps are widening - but parametric solutions might hold the key to resilience, says Dianna Nelson, a senior structurer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions