Bullies at Work: How Digital Harassment is Becoming a Workplace Risk Across the UK and Europe

Its latest advisory warns UK organisations of sustained online disruption caused by pro-Russian hacktivist groups, primarily through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The NCSC is explicit that many of these attacks are technically unsophisticated, but it stresses that this does not make them insignificant. Their value to attackers lies in visibility and persistence: taking services offline, even temporarily, can disrupt daily operations, undermine public confidenc

Richard Knowlton Chairman of Richard Knowlton Associates Strengthening Europe’s Digital Defence by Richard Knowlton Reading Time: 10 minutes Cybersecurity as Economic and Strategic Policy The European Commission has unveiled a substantial new cybersecurity package intended to reinforce the European Union’s collective resilience against cyber threats and systemic digital risk. Announced via press release IP/26/105, the package brings forward a revision of the EU Cybersecurity

Introduction: Looking Back from a Different World Some time in 2014, I jotted down a few notes summarising the five things that were keeping me awake as Group Security Director in a global telecoms company. I was waiting for a late-night connection on my latest international business trip. The words flowed easily and I believed I had captured the essential threats of the time: they were serious, complex, and already stretching organisational resilience. What I could not have

Effective communication in crisis management does not eliminate the impact of the incident—but it can preserve trust, contain reputational fallout, protect regulatory standing, and even strengthen stakeholder confidence.