The one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games is another in an increasing list of cancellations of a large-scale sporting event and will have ramifications for businesses and organisations.

Control Risks’ analysts assess that the proliferation of COVID-19 cases around the world could proceed according to the following scenarios, with a range of business, economic, security and geopolitical impacts.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues businesses and organisations are in various stages of crisis response or recovery across the globe. Regardless of which stage you are at right now, there is a growing body of knowledge and lessons learned that can help your crisis response.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis different from anything a business leader will have faced in over a century. Effective leadership in a prolonged crisis is absolutely necessary. Our experts use their experience, several previously from the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group, to offer constructive advice for leadership in this time of crisis.

Cybercriminal and Nation-state activity related to COVID-19 has ranged from phishing campaigns to steal credentials and commit financial fraud, to more sophisticated attacks focused on stealing financial or other sensitive data and conducting distributed denial of service and ransomware attacks.