Taking Stock
Risk Review or the review of existing and new risks is a critical activity when the business may have undergone a series of externally driven changes in a short period of time.
The last few months have been tough and whilst I believe we may be over the worst of the pandemic there could still be some tough times ahead as the lead-time effect takes hold.
A familiar behavior is ‘tunnel-vision’ focus and whilst business must survive it is often at these times that RISK is allowed to enter the business and unknowingly we could be harboring a significant affect to Revenue or Market Reputation.
I therefore encourage business owners and managers to consider the recent changes that have been made in their business and accordingly in their supply-chain and to ask themselves the question?
“Are we still able to operate in a way that does not introduce significant risk to the business, its assets, revenue and market reputation?”
Before you draw the inevitable conclusion “of course” consider if you have made any changes to accommodate staff working from home or onsite, have you employed additional or new cleaners added new software to the internal infrastructure or taken on new suppliers?
Whilst any single change may seem quite small and insignificant, collectively the picture is very different and can materially effect the businesses ability to operate in secure and compliant manner with Information Security risk being at a tolerable level. Next ask yourself the question,
“What are the top 5 risks on the Risk Register and what needs to be done about them?”
Here at Totalview Consultancy we are able to address these concerns in a way that moves the business forward and uplifts your existing management systems to include an appropriate but effective level of management strategy. We are not about implementing unnecessary levels of process complexity but instead use our in-depth industry experiences to set the level and from there are able to support you all the way to formal recognition of your management system effectiveness in the from of Certification to ISO standards including ISO27001 and ISO9001.
If you would like to know more about how we can help you answer the above question get in Contact.
