Connecting business experience with industry knowledge and policy to strengthen your organisation’s resilience
Building resilience starts with understanding what organisations need. At AJC, we work with organisations and industry partners to help them understand risk, strengthen protection and meet their compliance responsibilities.
Our involvement also extends to the wider discussions shaping cyber security and business resilience. Adrian Jolly, our founder and Managing Director, is Chairman of the Cyber Security and Business Resilience Policy Centre (CSBR) and a founder of the Institute of Corporate Resilience (IoCR).
Through these relationships, we bring experience from our work with clients into professional and policy discussions, including those involving the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cyber Security and Business Resilience. This helps ensure that business needs and practical challenges inform the wider conversation.
Knowledge flows both ways. What we learn through these discussions informs our advice to clients, while our experience supporting organisations contributes to shared learning and policy development.
Our work with clients gives us first-hand experience of the challenges organisations face, from protecting information to maintaining operations during disruption.
Working with our partners, we provide the advice and support organisations need to understand those challenges and take proportionate action. That practical perspective also informs our contribution to wider conversations about resilience.
AJC sponsors events organised by the CSBR and IoCR, providing financial support and helping with organisation, speakers and promotion. We also contribute ideas and help shape event topics and discussions, bringing practical business challenges into the conversation.
The CSBR is a non-partisan, not-for-profit policy centre focused on cyber security and business resilience. It brings together practitioners, researchers and policymakers to develop ideas and recommendations grounded in evidence.
As Chairman, Adrian brings experience from working with businesses into these discussions. This helps politicians and policymakers understand the challenges organisations face and consider what practical, workable responses should look like.
The Institute of Corporate Resilience is a membership body that promotes a broad approach to organisational resilience. Its focus is on education, solutions and thought leadership.
It brings professionals together to share experience and develop their understanding of how different areas of resilience connect. These include cyber security, business continuity, fraud prevention and risk management.
As one of its founders, Adrian contributes his experience of helping organisations manage these challenges.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cyber Security and Business Resilience connects parliamentarians with industry expertise. The CSBR contributes research and practical policy recommendations, while the IoCR shares its professional community’s knowledge and experience and supports the group’s work.
Through Adrian’s involvement, we bring the challenges AJC sees through its client work into these discussions, helping politicians understand business needs and how proposed policies could work in practice.
Work around the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill shows how these relationships connect professional knowledge with policy discussion. The CSBR considered the proposals at an early stage and produced a policy note. The IoCR held sessions to raise awareness, while discussions with members of both Houses of Parliament and a presentation to the APPG brought these issues into parliamentary debate.
Through Adrian’s involvement, AJC contributed to this collective work, with the aim of supporting legislation that is practical, fit for purpose and strengthens the UK’s cyber security and resilience.
Our involvement with the CSBR, IoCR and the APPG connects our practical work with wider industry knowledge and parliamentary discussion.
These relationships help us understand emerging policy priorities and consider what they could mean for our clients. They also give us opportunities to share experience with other specialists and bring the challenges organisations face to the attention of policymakers.
That broader perspective supports the clear, proportionate advice we provide, helping clients make informed decisions and build resilience in ways that work for their organisation.
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