Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Anthropic published its September 2026 threat intelligence report last month. It documents eight months of AI misuse the company detected and shut down on its own platform. Most of the coverage, including CyberScoop’s, focused on the headline: lone operators now run campaigns that used to require a state intelligence service. That is true. It is …
The Response Window Just Collapsed. Your Crisis Plan Still Assumes Days.Read More
Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic signed the same letter. So did Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, Visa, AT&T, and more than a hundred other organizations. The letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, says AI-enabled cyber attacks “will become far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months, and that …
The AI Labs Just Warned You About AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks. Here Is What They Left Out.Read More
Here is the uncomfortable finding most CEOs will skip past this week. New research from Wharton, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, analyzed six years of data to understand why some leaders defend remote and hybrid work while others kill it. The researchers surveyed thousands of executives, managers, and supervisors across a long …
A Return-to-Office Mandate Is a Tell About Your Leadership, Not Your StrategyRead More
Fusion Risk Management just published five years of market data, and buried inside it is an admission you rarely hear from a software company: the tools are not the constraint. Adoption is. The Enterprise Resilience Report draws on 4,571 intake conversations with 1,765 organizations evaluating resilience software between 2021 and 2025. It is vendor data …
The Resilience Maturity Gap Isn’t a Software ProblemRead More
Your CEO probably likes you. That is not the same as believing your program pays for itself. Two recent research studies about chief marketing officers explain this gap better than anything published in our own field, and they explain why executive buy-in for business continuity keeps eroding even when the relationship with leadership feels strong. …
Executive Buy-In for Business Continuity: Being Liked Is Not the Same as Being BelievedRead More
Hour three of a ransomware response. Someone on the call says what someone always says. “Didn’t we work through this in the spring?” They did. There was a tabletop in April that ran this exact scenario. The team reached a decision on the payment question, wrote down the criteria, and named who owned the call. …
Your Crisis Decision History Is a Single Point of FailureRead More
Jackie King, executive director of Ibec Global, recently argued that resilience is a profit issue, not just a risk issue (per Business Plus). She is right. And most boardrooms still do not act like it. Here is the claim, stated plainly. Resilience is a profit center. The work you fund to keep operating through disruption …
General Mills announced yesterday that most of its North American headquarters employees will be in the office four days a week starting September 8. The current return to office mandate is three. CEO Jeff Harmening tied the change directly to disappointing business performance. The implicit logic: if our people were in the office one more …
Four Days in the Office Won’t Fix a Product ProblemRead More
