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Robust, Resilient and Secure

Supply chain security appears to be overlooked in supply chain risk management. However, supply chain security can add to the robustness and resileince of the overall supply chain, providing a “safety net” of services that protects and enhances the overall supply chain operation.

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Website security as it should be

Incapsula, the leader in cloud-based website security, has just released a major upgrade, and it is now much easier to use, having richer reporting details and extremely fine-tunable security options, making it very easy to pinpoint and select which traffic to allow and which to reject.

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ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience

ISO 28002 – Security management systems for the supply chain – Development of resilience in the supply chain – details how an organization can engage in a comprehensive and systematic process of prevention, protection, preparedness, mitigation, response, continuity and recovery.

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Book Review: Security Risk Management – Body of Knowledge

SRMBOK is a vast and practically all-encompassing repository of knowledge, filled with accepted best practices, innovations and research in the evolving field of security risk management.

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Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains

The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that requires analysis that extends beyond the immediate visible.

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Building a secure and resilient supply chain

Are you gambling with your supply network? You should be aware that the supply network is inherently vulnerable to disruption and the failure of any one element in it could cause the whole network to fail. Actions to improve security can be classified into three categories: Physical security, Information security, Freight security. Actions to improve resilience can be be divided into: Flexibility, Redundancy.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Cross-border supply chains
What are the main change and trend drivers for international supply chains? How will future cross-bo[...]
Supply chain management - the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory buil[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
One bad apple...
...spoils the barrel? Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in Suppl[...]
The Resilient Organization
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
from HERE and THERE
Finding academic articles without academic journals
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I try to read as many academic journals as possible, and I[...]
Less cost and less disruptions?
One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Acro[...]