To increase our resilience we need to be able to cope with a range of events that may impact us. These things tend to exist along a continuum. Too often we overdo the “Disaster” end of the range, with the potential that our programs are seen as the “Department of Unlikely Events“. It also demeans […]
… many happy returns
No sooner had my blog been recovered from the previous failure, than I seem to have been infected with some kind of malware probably injected via a comment into my database. I shall have to practice safe blogging in future! Still it could be worse. Consider this incident. At the recent AusCERT Conference the delegates were […]
… volcanic ash risk
Uncertainty rules! I guess everybody has heard about the volcano in Iceland and how it has led to the grounding of most air traffic in Western Europe. I read something today asserting that airlines should have plans in place for this kind of thing. What rubbish! Incidents like this cannot be predicted – and as a […]
… “cell storm” disruption
Over the weekend the city of Melbourne was hit by a heavy hail storm. Storms have also hit the headlines in Europe and the USA is recent months as the cause of disruption. Three years ago a similar cell storm caused considerable damage to the commerical centre of Canberra. We read about these being extreme […]
… the millenium bug finally bites
Better late than never – the Y2K bug has arrived! This bug has been disrupting parts of the retail/banking value chain in Australia and other parts of the world. This newspaper report also highlights a failure in redundancy by one financial institution. As a result a customer “was not able to process payments until yesterday […]