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Business Continuity Integration with Supply Chain Management: The Why and How

Betty A. Kildow |
November 14, 2019

I was initially taken aback upon reviewing the results of a recent career survey conducted by a disaster recovery certification organization about “the changing role of the resilience professional.” According to the white paper, supply chain management came in last, behind information technology, information security, compliance, facilities management, physical security, audit, and legal. The question asked…

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Disaster Recovery Lessons Learned: The Seventh Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy

Matthew Hilsenrad | November 19, 2019

During Hurricane Sandy in 2012 the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ were closed for two days and the super storm ended up costing New York State a staggering $32 billion, New York City $19 billion and the U.S. economy an estimated $65 billion. Seven years later, it’s fair to ask what has Hurricane Sandy taught us? Preparing…

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2020 Vision: Refocusing Your Program for the New Year

TJ Heginbotham | November 14, 2019

It’s almost the end of 2019. I’ll pause to let that sink in if you haven’t looked at the calendar in a while. It’s hard to believe in the next few weeks it will be a sprint to finish our 2019 goals and objectives by the end of the year. Did you exercise more? Read…

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Using Residual Risk to Understand Program Effectiveness

Michael Herrera | November 14, 2019

The simplest way to determine if a program is executable is to measure the level of residual risk across its critical recovery plans. What is residual risk? Residual risk is the risk that remains after all efforts have been made to identify and eliminate risk (i.e., your mitigating controls). The concept of residual risk has…

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Ask the Executive: An Interview with Rob van den Eijnden of Royal Philips

| November 14, 2019

Rob van den Eijnden, MBCI, CISA, CRISC, Lead Auditor ISO 22301, is the global business continuity and resilience leader for Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA, hereafter Philips) functionally reporting to the group chief of operations (COO). Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and enabling better outcomes across the…