This article was first published on 20th March 2018. [vc_empty_space][vc_separator type="normal" color="#1b1464"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] “Was a matter of time. Can we agree this is a stupid idea? #Uber @Potus” ….cried out the Tweet from Bill (and doubtless the thousands like him, soon to follow). It didn’t take long for the...
In these strange COVID times, authenticity matters more than ever. In this short video, we go behind the scenes at Senscia to explain a little bit about what we do and where we do it. We had a client telling us recently that we were like “a well-kept secret, hidden in plain...
The Sting On the 3rd August 2020, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian national, met with an old acquaintance at a bar in Reno. This wasn’t the first time the pair had seen each other. They had met before in 2016 but only had gotten back...
When the summer storms of 2019 swept across the Midlands and the North of England, the neighbours of the little town of Whaley Bridge never expected that in a couple of hours they would become characters to a Hollywood blockbuster-worthy near miss incident . After days...
This summer, Gartner released an advisory post to their Risk and Security clients with the headline, “Hire the Right Teachers for Better Security Awareness”. They noted both the importance of getting security awareness messaging right but also recognized that few employees felt this was being achieved....
From deadlines and pressure to triggering situations, stress has become a common aspect of people’s work life. In the right setting, stress can help us become more focused on tasks and meet new challenges. It is already known that stress influences memory processes and decision-making...
Without question, the Coronavirus has been the pivotal risk event in 2020 which has shaped and re-framed all other risk exposures; a genuine tectonic shift in the risk landscape. It’s useful for us then, to peek at one of the first surveys of the risk...
From its beginning as a Latin expression, “black swans” was used as a term to describe impossibility, taken from the assumption that all swans must be white, as historical records exclusively stated that swans had white feathers - until black swans were discovered in Australia...
Passengers and cabin-crew were shocked alike; no-one expected to see sparks ripping out the back of both the engines of flight 8303. The one-and-a-half-hour internal flight from Lahore had been normal and weather conditions were fine the whole way. Scorch marks indented the runway of...
Wherever you work in an organisation, risk management is a vital part of any long-term decision-making process. Such things work better as an ongoing process rather than an ad-hoc, irregular effort. However, to be able to come up with a useful risk management programme, we first...
