Terrorism seen as a threat by just 20% of directors - survey

Terrorism features in just 20% of risk management plans, a survey found.

Directors of 700 European companies were quizzed, leading to findings that 50% of companies have reviewed their business continuity plans in the last year.

Respondents said changes to business continuity plans were less likely to be driven by the threat of terrorism and more likely to be driven by corporate governance (35%) or customers (30%).

Of those with business continuity plans, 29% said their plans covered severe weather, 14% said they covered the economic climate and 14% said they covered strike action.

The research was conducted for Synstar, the IT services and business continuity provider.

It also found that 16% of directors did not know what risks were covered by their business continuity plans and another 20% were not aware if any changes to their plans had been made in the past 12 months.