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The Long Tail of Cyber Incidents – A Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) Case Study

Plan B Consulting

In local authorities, transparency is extremely important. All Scottish local authorities are under financial pressure, and this incident has already cost over 1m, putting further strain on the councils finances. A second report that was lost examined spending on community planning and engagement.

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PRA’s Operational Resilience Roadmap: Looking Ahead to the March 2025 Compliance Deadline

Castellan

Most firms seem to be looking at days or weeks for impact tolerance If we look at RTOs in the business continuity discipline, we often think in terms of minutes, hours, or days; especially when we look at IT recovery. However, when we look at impact tolerances, we are seeing timeframes in terms of days, weeks, and beyond.

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Guest Posting on Hurricane Sandy

Recovery Diva

Are there scholars still working on post-Katrina New Orleans through analysis of its recovery and transformation over the last 15-20 years? Now may be the time to revisit the excellent scholarship on post-disaster recovery conducted after Katrina and to do a retrospective assessment of 20-years of long-term recovery in New Orleans.