Digital resilience White Paper

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1 August 2018

SHEARWATER GROUP PLC

Digital resilience White Paper published by ISRS and Shearwater

Shearwater Group plc (AIM: SWG, "Shearwater"), the digital resilience group, has published a White Paper titled "Digital Resilience - Understanding the Challenges of Resilience in Digital Environments", produced in collaboration with the Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security ("ISRS") at University College London.

A full copy of the White Paper is available at http://www.digital-resilience.com.

Michael (Mo) Stevens, Group Chief Executive Officer, said:

"This white paper sets out a framework for the challenges of a new generation of leaders in the digital environment.  It proposes an assessment framework of key questions for leaders to define, identify and address digital resilience issues within their organisations and outlines the principles to identify these issues both from a business and technology perspective."

The Rt Hon. the Lord Reid of Cardowan, Chairman of Shearwater's Advisory Panel and Executive Chairman of ISRS, added:

"Digital technology has become a vital infrastructure underpinning the functioning of every aspect of human society, and is increasingly interwoven with decision making and business processes. Failures of imagination by leadership teams to consider both the opportunities and risks that emerge from the digital environment represent potent catalysts of future existential crises.

"This new white paper attempts to draw out some of the most important issues for senior executives and illustrates the need for assessment of digital resilience in terms of the capability of their organisations to anticipate, respond, learn and evolve. I believe that there has never been a more important time to do so."

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