UCC and KPMG hosted a Business Continuity Management (BCM) & Sustainability Symposium at the Aula Maxima this week Local, regional, and international industry experts exchanged their best practices and lessons learned from major to minor disruptions with peers and researchers.
Attendees gained valuable insights into BCM and sustainability strategies to stay ahead of the curve and help ensure their organizations are prepared for any business disruptions, from floods, cybersecurity attacks, and supply chain failures, to cascading events that will inevitably be faced. When used strategically and as part of the very culture of an organization, BCM will prove a critical success factor in building resilience against disruptions, whether natural or man-made.
The expert speakers included representatives from multinationals, Irish and Italian hospitals, fire services, EU civil protection, police, army, emergency management offices, consultancies, and two universities. The attendees, from businesses, research centers, critical infrastructure organizations, and universities, came from ten different countries: Germany, Austria, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Ireland (Cork and Dublin), Bulgaria, Italy, and France.
The symposium was chaired by Dr. Karen Neville, Managing Director of the Centre for Resilience & Business Continuity (CRBC) at Cork University Business School. She is a partner and Evaluation Leader for the DYNAMO project. Karen, who has researched the BCM and emergency management field for over 12 years, was quoted as saying that this will be the first of such events for industry in supporting their continuity needs, as learning from peers about preparing for, responding to, and recovering faster is critical in building resilience to attacks of any kind.
The BCM Symposium was sponsored by the Horizon Project DYNAMO (https://horizon-dynamo.eu/events/). The project will result in the development of a platform that will enable resilience assessment of critical sector organizations (hospitals, power, transportation, etc.) and will integrate BCM and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). The combination of CTI processing with BCM approaches will further enhance situational awareness and recovery capabilities of businesses or critical infrastructures