Welcome to Risky Thinking!

Do your staff know what to do when an incident happens?
Our Plan424 System puts your business continuity plan where it's immediately accessible — on your employees' phones. Designed and built for the modern mobile environment, Plan424 includes a large set of example team plans which you can easily adapt to your needs. Learn more.

It can be a lot of work keeping track of activities, resources, and dependencies to create a Business Impact Analysis , a Risk Register, or a Disruption Timeline. Our Risk Assessment Toolkit makes life a lot easier, particularly if you are not satisfied with a purely qualitative analysis. It also provides a wealth of additional information to help you allocate budgets or manage a disruption. Learn More.

We can create your business continuity plan, review a plan to ensure it meets your needs, or assist with desktop exercises to train staff and refine your plan. We specialize in producing cost-effective plans for companies with limited budgets. More details can be found here.

The Risky Thinking Newsletter is read by industry professionals worldwide who are interested in risk, business continuity, and security. Our articles provides additional insights and commentary. We also have a widely referenced glossary and some online tools.

• Small Fire, Large Outage
  I tried to log on to our VoIP provider’s website today. The website wasn’t working properly. A small fire had ignited at the datacenter they used. It was quickly extinguished and the datacenter had redundant generators and backup systems. So why, more than twenty four hours later, was the website still down? Read Now
• Phishing Airline Customers Made Easier
  Recently I received an email from Southwest Airlines. There was a reward of $100 for completing a survey. It was a straightforward phishing attempt, but Southwest made it easier than it should have been for the criminals. Are you making it easy too? Read Now
• Power Outages and Strategy 1.5
  An attack at the end of last year on two electrical substations put them out of action for a number of days. 40,000 customers were without power for a number of days. Such attacks are increasing. Do you need a better plan for dealing with power cuts? Read Now

More articles can be found here. If you find these topics interesting, you will probably also enjoy the free Risky Thinking Newsletter. You can also follow us on Mastodon.