Reskube has launched a new funding round. Early interest in the company, which provides power and internet in a smart, portable box, had £688,000 already committed pre-launch.

Resilience First has announced the appointment of Rick Cudworth as its new chair.

The University of Gloucestershire is partnering with the Institute of Strategic Risk Management to become the first ISRM University Chapter, allowing students to participate in knowledge and information exchange through webinars and networking events, along with opportunities to share and publish academic work with peers, academics and professionals.

WTW has launched the Aviation Safety Partnership, a new initiative designed to deliver dedicated safety risk mitigation advice to general aviation and rotor wing clients.

Food and beverages remain the most commonly stolen commodities, according to the British Standards Institution’s latest annual Supply Chain Risk Insights Report. Thefts from hijacking have fallen as a proportion of cargo theft from 24.4% to 17.0%. These are now second to theft from facilities, which now account for more than a quarter of total thefts.

Business continuity, resilience and disaster recovery specialist, Databarracks, has launched a new business continuity incident response service, aimed at guiding customers through the non-IT aspects of incident response.

Cyber incidents and business interruption rank as the greatest concerns for the second year in succession, according to Allianz’s latest Risk Barometer, with macroeconomic developments such as inflation, financial market volatility, a looming recession and the impact of the energy crisis the fastest risers in this year’s list.

Where is the UK's National Resilience Strategy? Peter Power writes.

Disruption within the global supply chain continues to drive up the risk of cargo theft. Electrical goods are the biggest target for cargo theft globally, with the US reporting over 70% of these losses. The split in general between theft from vehicles and depots is in the order of two-thirds versus one-third. This is a consistent finding, though vehicles ‘at rest’ as opposed to hijackings are more prevalent targets.

The northern hemisphere’s summer of 2022 left one certainty: the impacts of climate change have become more acute, and they will feed into the pre-existing inflationary pressures that have driven a rise in civil unrest risks worldwide.

Businesses are overlooking remote working in their data backup and recovery plans, leading to a failure to ensure operational compliance and business continuity when faced with fragmented data and dispersed technology, according to a survey of IT decision makers by backup and storage provider Arcserve.

Amid concerns that electricity and other sources of energy could become scarce in Europe this winter, companies are being advised to draw up thorough plans to address any threats to business continuity.

Data analytics firm EXL has collaborated with cyber risk specialist CyberCube to jointly develop cyber insurance solutions for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry.