Supply chain risk is a hot
topic today.
Some of the most significant
cybersecurity breaches this year have been supply chain
related. SolarWinds,
Accellion,
Hafnium,
and most recently - the Kaseya
attack.
Why now? Supply chain risk =
third-party risk.
The COVID-19 pandemic
forced companies to transition to a remote workforce, where
security and IT teams could not do their ‘usual’ due
diligence - particularly around onboarding third-parties. As
a result, nefarious actors (aka – hackers) took full
advantage. In the U.S., the FBI reported a 500% increase in
cyber-attacks in the first months of the lockdown in
2020.
New Zealand is ripe for
Tim
Kearins is the new part-owner of Century 21 New
Zealand.
As the Principal of Century
21 Premier in Manawatu, Mr Kearins has led a top performing
team which services Palmerston North and surrounding areas.
His extensive industry experience and wealth of knowledge
has seen him achieve many accolades over his time with the
brand including consistently being awarded Top Principal as
well as achieving Centurion status.
Tim Kearins is
excited about the future of C21 New Zealand.
“I am
proud to be joining the NZ arm of the business as a part
owner. Century 21 is one of the most respected names in the
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 10:03 am
The Sustainable Business Council (SBC) and the Climate
Leaders Coalition (CLC) have joined forces with the
Environmental Defence Society (EDS) to take the 2021 Climate
Change and Business Conference - Now to Net Zero, to a new
level.
The focus of this year’s conference is on the
concrete action business is taking to accelerate the pathway
to net zero by 2050. It will be held in Auckland on 13 and
14 October, 2021.
CEO of EDS Gary Taylor says, We are
delighted that SBC and CLC, which represent over 150
business leaders and influencers, have partnered with us. We
are at an historic moment for the role of business in
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 9:55 am
Flood-affected farmers in the South Island are being
encouraged to make use of livestock feed support services
funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries
(MPI).
Widespread flooding across the Canterbury, West
Coast, Tasman and Marlborough areas this winter has damaged
pasture and caused losses to supplementary feed.
Since
June, MPI has boosted feed support services and allocated
more than $4.7 million for recovery grants, technical advice
and wellbeing support.
“Several of these regions had
been battling long-term drought prior to the floods which
have put further pressure on feed supplies heading into
calving and lambing,” said MPI’s director of Rural
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 11:31 am
The Otago Regional Council (ORC) will be drilling at up
to nine sites in South Dunedin and coastal parts of the
central city, following up on 27 monitoring bores installed
in 2019.
ORC will be installing groundwater monitoring
equipment and extracting geological cores samples to gather
new insights into what lies beneath residential South
Dunedin and reclaimed coastal parts of the city.
The
nine new monitoring bores will bring the total number of
bores in ORC’s Dunedin well network to 36 sites, up from
four in 2018.
Natural Hazards Analyst Sharon Hornblow
said the existing bores had provided useful data on the