How information is communicated to employees during a change matters more than what information is communicated.
Harvard Business Review

When the grid goes down, old-fashioned skills save lives.
Foreign Policy

While federal government shutdown has had an immediate effect on the hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors either furloughed or forced to work without pay, IT security teams outside of the government could potentially be affected as necessary public services become unavailable.
Decipher

The potential threat of Brexit for UK manufacturers in 2019 is producing a more pessimistic outlook for growth prospects in the coming year. This is according to a major survey released by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation and the global insurer AIG.
Production Engineering Solutions

Expect more targeted IoT attacks and new nation-state threats in the coming year
TechRadar

Marriott International Inc.’s disclosure last week of a massive data breach illustrates the potential vulnerability of the hospitality sector, which plays host to mountains of personal information via hotel bookings and loyalty programs, experts say.
Business Insurance

Researchers in UMD's Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and in the Supply Chain Management Center of the Robert H. Smith School of Business have begun work on a prototype of a highly localized "Climate Change Variability/Vulnerability Index." This new research has been launched in light of the Reslinc report on 2017 impacts, and in the aftermath of massive damage caused by 2018 hurricanes Florence and Michael.
Phys.org

It is easy to zero in on profits, accounting returns, etc. But neglecting non-tangible assets, such as quality, innovation, or customer service risks, will lead to missing relevant early warning signals.
Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation

The World Economic Forum (WEF) spoke to more than 12,000 executives around the world about what they considered to be the biggest risks to doing businesses, ranging across political, societal and technological concerns.
CNBC

According to the Ipsos MORI Business Resilience Trends Watch 2019 survey, carried out in partnership with International SOS, 43 per cent of key business decision-makers believe that travel risks will increase in 2019.
International Travel and Health Insurance Journal

The Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act would amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which bans unauthorized access of computers. The idea of treating a computer virus victim like the recipient of a face-punch, however, has received mixed reviews from experts.
US News and World Report

Active shooter incidents are becoming more common, according to an FBI report released Wednesday... The majority of the incidents in the report -- 60 percent -- were over before police could arrive on the scene.
The Washington Post

Academic study shows that potential partners and employees may be more likely to deceive startups than established companies.
Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of a reputational crisis, most companies suffer a noticeable drop in stock value. A new study offers evidence that company response has a direct bearing on whether that initial dip has a lasting impact on shareholder value.
Risk & Insurance

New Kroll Annual Global Fraud & Risk Report says 86% of companies worldwide experienced security incidents and information theft and loss in the past twelve months.
Dark Reading

RAND President and CEO Michael Rich has been talking about what he sees as an erosion of respect for facts and evidence in political life—a phenomenon he calls “Truth Decay.” He asked RAND political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh to help analyze the issue and lay out a research agenda to better understand Truth Decay's causes and consequences.
RAND Corporation

A new report by Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, and risk modeler AIR Worldwide analyzes the financial impact of the failure of a leading cloud provider in the US. The report finds that an extreme cyber incident that takes a top cloud provider offline in the US for 3 to 6 days would result in economic losses of $15bn and up to $3bn in insured losses.
Lloyd's

The World Economic Forum has announced a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity to help build a safe and secure global cyberspace. The centre will be based in Geneva, Switzerland, and will function as an autonomous organization under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. The aim of the centre is to establish the first global platform for governments, businesses, experts and law enforcement agencies to collaborate on cybersecurity challenges.
World Economic Forum

According to a survey of over 5,000 board members from around the world, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability.
Harvard Business Review

New research from the UBC Sauder School of Business has quantified the security levels of more than 1,200 Pan-Asian companies in order to determine whether increased awareness of one’s security levels leads to improved defense levels against cybercrime.
UBC Sauder School of Business

How might a financial crisis triggered by a cyber attack unfold? A likely scenario would be an attack by a rogue nation or terrorist group on financial institutions or major infrastructure.
Harvard Business Review

A new web-based tool can help security professionals for commercial office buildings perform assessments based on the Best Practices for Anti-Terrorism Security (BPATS) for commercial office buildings.
Department of Homeland Security

In an increasingly complex and dangerous world, how can the modern corporate security professional not only minimise risks to people and assets, but also bring commercial value to their employer? Joule Sullivan, director of international security operations at global healthcare giant Abbott, has a number of suggestions.
IFSEC Global

Confidence in the ability of sound risk management to contribute to commercial success in the shipping industry has fallen in the last 12 months an average 5.9 out of a possible score of 10.0, according to the latest annual Shipping Risk Survey from accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens.
Maritime Executive

Onus is on banks to vet subcontractors during contract negotiations, regulator says
Risk.net

More and more, the management of physical access control solutions is coming under the control of information technology (IT) or information security.
Total Security Daily Advisor

The Department of Homeland Security is working with multiple Federal agencies to develop a new “risk radar” that will help agencies’ top executives contextualize cybersecurity risk and clarify where they need to apply focus and resources.
MeriTalk

Last week, Microsoft received a federal court's permission to take down malicious websites that mimicked the login pages of the Senate, Microsoft's own Office 365 email platform and two conservative think tanks, the International Republican Institute and the Hudson Institute.
Politico

A survey of 600 professionals in the U.S. and U.K. conducted by Dun & Bradstreet also finds that "88% of the 341 respondents who experienced fraud in the past two years said fraud has had an impact on their company’s brand." Follow the link in the article for the full report.
Supply Chain Dive

Social media platforms have emerged as the world's most popular forms of communication. They also have become popular platforms for committing fraud. David Pollino, CISO of Bank of the West outlines what institutions should do to secure their social media presence.
BankInfoSecurity

Diane Gherson discusses teambuilding, motivation, and the impact of technology on the global workforce.
Forbes

The US Senate has passed its version of the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act. The bipartisan measure promises smaller companies a consistent, relevant and universal set of NIST-based guidance and resources for protecting their data against online threats.
Endgadget

The technology behind cryptocurrency can keep the United States safe—but only if the country takes advantage of its head start.
Foreign Policy