The 48-Hour Hurricane Planning Window Facility Managers Often Miss
When a hurricane is approaching, one number tends to dominate the conversation: its category. That number matters. It tells us something important about sustained wind speeds and the potential for
DRJ Fall 2026 Brings Resilience Community Together for 75th Conference
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Disaster Recovery Journal marked a major milestone Sept. 27-30 as more than 650 business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, risk management, and resilience professionals gathered in Texas
Regional Service Envelope for Middle East Critical Infrastructure
Traditional continuity plans recover organizations and assets. The regional service envelope proposed here tests whether electricity, water, telecommunications and other essential services can remain above an agreed minimum while their
What Does Day Four Cost? Rethinking How Organizations Measure Resilience
A disruption does not suddenly become significant only when a recovery deadline is missed. Its impact builds over time. By the fourth hour, a delayed process may still be manageable.
NCEMA 7000: What the UAE Business Continuity Standard Asks For, and What It Leaves to the Operator
The UAE’s national business continuity standard is better written than most practitioners outside the region assume; its limits are also more consequential than they assume Business continuity professionals in Europe
Sept. 11: We Remember. We Honor. We Never Forget.
Twenty-five years later, it is still hard to find the right words for Sept. 11, 2001. For those of us old enough to remember that day, we remember exactly where
Cyber Resilience: Keeping the Business Running During Disruption
Resilience Is a Business Issue The recent Boston Scientific cyberattack is a reminder that cyber resilience is not only about protecting IT systems. It is about maintaining critical business operations
When the Playbook Fails: Why Traditional BCP Frameworks Weren’t Built for AI
It starts quietly. An AI system deployed across lending operations begins flagging applications using a pattern which made sense in testing but drifts from reality in production. No alarm fires.
When the Incident Becomes a Crisis: AI Governance for Enterprise Resilience
How artificial intelligence accelerates detection, sharpens prioritization, and strengthens coordination while preserving human command over consequential decisions Crisis management has crossed a threshold of its own. It is no longer
Beyond the Plan: Validating Operational Resilience Under Real-World Pressure
For decades, resilience programs have been built upon familiar and necessary foundations: conducting business impact analyses (BIAs), identifying critical dependencies, documenting recovery strategies, developing continuity plans, and establishing crisis management
