Business Continuity Risk Register

FundApps has performed a business impact analysis and maintains a risk register as part of our business continuity management system. The full risk register is maintained here [Restricted to FundApps staff]. We do not include the full details here, but below is a summary of the risks that we have analysed.

Ref	Risk Identified	Guidance notes	Risk type
1	Pandemic (flu like infection)	Widespread flu	National
2	Terrorist attack against UK generally	Dealt with under location risks	National
3	Regional or national power failure		National
4	Fuel supply crisis	Political instability at home or abroad makes petrol/diesel difficult to acquire	National
5	Solar weather	Major flares from the Sun can disrupt networks, electricity grids and infrastructure in unpredicatble ways	National
6	Criminal activity aimed specifically against Fund Apps	Organizations someitmes targeted to move funds or act as a trusted party fronting for criminal activity	Organisational
7	Espionage against Fund Apps for high profile clients	Organizations are sometimes targetted for espionage in order to gain insight into confidential information in client	Organisational
8	Malicious damage by member of staff	Staff who are being disciplined or recently dismissed or suffering mental illness	Organisational
9	Loss of key individuals	Staff may be ill, have accidents or leave for other work	Organisational
10	Earthquake		Location - Natural
11	Volcano	Identified as a National Risk too	Location - Natural
12	Fluvial flooding	Flooding from rivers	Location - Natural
13	Flash (pluvial) flooding	Flash floods follow intense rain	Location - Natural
14	Severe weather (snow)	Snow fall over large part of the area and remaining for 1 week	Location - Natural
15	Severe weather (prolonged low temperatures)	Persistent low temperatures	Location - Natural
16	Severe weather (Heat Wave)	Temperatures exceeding 32C and minimum overnight exceeding 15C over 5 days	Location - Natural
17	Severe weather (drought)	Prolonged shortage of rainfall or failure in water supply	Location - Natural
18	Outbreak of severe illness or communicable disease	May arise from local transmission of disease or collective exposure to food pathogens or legionella et al	Location - Health
19	Impact to building from road traffic accident		Location - traffic
20	Road traffic accident blocking access roads	Road intersection few LGVs	Location - traffic
21	Road traffic incident with hazardous chemicals	Construction traffic may pass, petrol station opposite office	Location - traffic
22	Road traffic incident or fire with gas/gas cylinders	Construction traffic with gas cylinders almost certainly passes office	Location - traffic
23	Rail accident	Old Street Tube Station only nearby line	Location - traffic
24	Air accident	Aircraft directly impacting site	Location - traffic
25	Neighbouring businesses	Activities of neighbours may expose Fund Apps to risks	Location
26	Criminal activity against site	Opportunistic or directed activity	Location
27	Terrorist action in vicinity	Fund Apps not targeted but impacted by nearby attack	Location
28	Terrorist action against site	Fund Apps not target per se, but site attacked for some perceived connections	Location
29	Effectiveness of Physical security	Criminals, terrorists, demonstrators can all be discouraged and prevented by effective perimeter security	Perimeter
30	Utility supply to site - Electricity	Liable to localised mains failure, substation fire and disturbance through ground works	Perimeter
31	Utility supply to site - Gas	Liable to disturbance through ground works	Perimeter
32	Utility supply to site - Water	Liable to disturbance through ground works. Loss through systemic failures in distribution system.	Perimeter
33	Utility supply to site - Sewerage	Liable to disturbance through ground works	Perimeter
34	Utility supply to site - Telecomms	Liable to disturbance through ground works and loss of local exchange	Perimeter
35	Building roof	Roofs may leak giving rise to structural damage or flooding	Building
36	Building structure	Overall structure must be sound to withstand severe weather, tremors etc.	Building
37	Building structure	Asbestos - danger to health and needs controlled operations for works	Building
38	Building basement areas	May be liable to flood from above or groundwater	Building
39	Building - internal water supplies	Pipes and tanks must be in good condition and not positioned where they will cause significant damage	Building
40	Building - M&E	M&E provides the air handling, chillers, boilers and electrical infrastructure for the operation of the premises	Building
41	Fire within building	Rare but highly disruptive and damaging with a risk to life	Building
42	Loss or disruption to key supplier	Suppliers, distributors and others are key to any business operation	3rd parties
43	Loss of local IT infrastructure services	Office IT loss	IT
44	Loss of IT applications	Servers or storage failures in DCs	IT
45	Cyber attack	Fund Apps targetted or simply collateral damage to other attack(s)	IT