Resilience Forward

For the past two decades, many high-profile businesses have looked at the terrorism threat from the ground up. The visible signs are familiar: bollards, concrete planters, hostile vehicle mitigation barriers, strengthened façades, security-rated street furniture, controlled access points, vehicle stand-off distances, and protective measures around crowded entrances.

Location: UK, Gloucester (Hybrid) Company: Benefact Group This is a high-profile, newly shaped leadership role with Group-wide reach. The primary purpose is to define and lead the evolution of organizational resilience in the context of an ever-developing range of threats. The role involves setting strategy, developing policy, and establishing execution frameworks within which the business must operate.

AlertMedia has released 'The Security Maturity Benchmark Report', a new research study examining the operational, organizational, and technology factors that determine whether security programmes can effectively withstand today's evolving threat landscape. The report features responses from more than 500 senior security decision-makers and highlights how organizations are managing increasing risk complexity, constrained resources, and rising expectations around business resilience.

Veeam Software has published new global research, the 'Data and AI Trust Gap' report. This exposes a 'stark and widening gap at the heart of enterprise AI' - while 88% of organizations are already using or piloting AI agents, only 7% qualify as truly AI-ready and 95% say data challenges have already slowed their AI progress.

Location: UK, Berkshire Agency : Savant Recruitment A leading telecommunications business is seeking an experienced enterprise risk manager to play a key role in the development, enhancement, and delivery of its enterprise-wide risk management framework.

Location: UK, Milton Keynes Company: Dominos You'll lead the way the organization prepares for disruption and responds when it happens - making sure its plans are clear, practical, and well understood across the business. You'll be a trusted point of contact for resilience, working closely with senior stakeholders and helping teams feel ready, not reactive.

Introduction - the current view of supply chain challenges The lesson of the last few years is not simply that supply chain disruption happens more often. It is that disruption now travels through multiple channels at once - trade policy, regional conflict, cyber activity, energy prices, sanctions, logistics capacity, supplier concentration, and market sentiment.

Resilience includes mapping dependencies, stress-testing supply chains, documenting critical processes, and scrutinising third-party relationships. Yet one dependency underpins almost every operational process that an organization runs and it almost never appears on a resilience map: the trust embedded in everyday business communications. From casual emails between colleagues to supplier invoices, our workdays are defined by trusted connections.

Nine in ten security leaders are concerned about the security risks introduced by AI-generated code, according to new research entitled 'AI Coding Assistants and the New Security Challenge' from Salt Security. The report highlights the growing pressure on organizations to govern AI-assisted software development at scale.