IT Outages, Cyber Attacks Top List of Business Continuity Fears
Three-quarters of business continuity managers fear the possibility of an unplanned IT and telecoms outage, and 73 percent worry about the possibility of a cyber attack or data breach, according to the annual Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Horizon Scan.
Supply chain disruption, on the other hand, moved down the list to 16th place, after being included in the top 10 concerns last year. According to BCI, “This is despite increasing supply chain complexity featuring within the top five emerging trends, in addition to the recent BCI Supply Chain Resilience Survey, which revealed that 75 percent of respondents experienced at least one supply chain disruption during the previous year.”