Using Podcasts To Reach Your Business Goals
Subscribe to the Business Resilience DECODED podcast – from DRJ and Asfalis Advisors – on your favorite podcast app. New episodes every Thursday. Episode 132: Using Podcasts To Reach Your Business Goals This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at https://bit.ly/FusionDECODED today! If… Continue reading Using Podcasts To Reach Your Business Goals
Navigating the Difficulties of Being Online as a Small Business
Launching a successful small business has never been easy. However, in today’s increasingly competitive global marketplace, the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face are perhaps greater than ever before. To survive and thrive in a volatile economy and crowded market, businesses need a robust online presence. This allows access to a virtually limitless target market while minimizing… Continue reading Navigating the Difficulties of Being Online as a Small Business
Shifting Baselines: Strategies to Build Your Program and Gain Support
Since March 2020, individuals, families, organizations, societies, and nations have been under tremendous stress. If it isn’t one thing, it seems like a hundred more: You might be thinking, “This is a great time for our profession.” Anyone could simply look at the news and see what is going on around the world and think,… Continue reading Shifting Baselines: Strategies to Build Your Program and Gain Support
Ways Winter Weather Can Disrupt Business – and What to Do About It
All early indicators suggest the potential for severe winter weather. While the overall weather pattern will be milder than usual, there is a potential for strong surges of Artic air to push south and create local extremes. With cool water in the eastern Pacific, the winter weather season will likely be extreme. Although hurricanes and… Continue reading Ways Winter Weather Can Disrupt Business – and What to Do About It
Career Spotlight: Gabrielle Sandy
Tell us about yourself – your name, company, title, and responsibilities? Hello DRJ family! My name is Gabrielle Sandy, and I am the AVP of business resiliency for CFCU Community Credit Union in upstate New York. My responsibilities include managing and overseeing physical security, facilities, business continuity, disaster recovery, and enterprise risk management. I have… Continue reading Career Spotlight: Gabrielle Sandy
Tips to Selecting the Right BaaS Solution to Protect Your IT Environment
Backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solutions address a common, recurring problem in organizations: backup deployment and ongoing maintenance. They minimize the need for organizations to deploy backup software and hardware and then fix, patch, and upgrade them. In adopting BaaS, organizations outsource a task many prefer not to do and may not currently manage well. However, BaaS solutions… Continue reading Tips to Selecting the Right BaaS Solution to Protect Your IT Environment
Identifying The Right Impact Categories for Your BIA and How to Rate Them
Identifying the right impact categories is a famously confusing aspect of the business impact analysis (BIA). It is also critically important since the choice influences the order in which the various business processes and units will be restored in the event of a disruption. Impact categories are the aspects of your business you look at… Continue reading Identifying The Right Impact Categories for Your BIA and How to Rate Them
Hurricanes and Climate Change – What We Know Now
Analysis of more than 530,000 corporate insurance industry claims worth €88.7bn over the past five years shows natural catastrophes are the second top cause of losses globally for businesses overall, according to value of claims (15%), ranking behind only fire and explosion (21%). A deeper look at the major causes of natural catastrophe losses, based… Continue reading Hurricanes and Climate Change – What We Know Now
What Resilience Means to Me
A version of this article first appeared on the Resilience Think Tank blog. If you were to gather 50 risk and resilience professionals together in a room and ask each of them what their definition of “resilience” would be, it is my firm belief you would receive 50 different responses. Whether we choose the definition… Continue reading What Resilience Means to Me
Unified Management Is Key to Securing Your Data and Building Business Success
Organizations can gain tremendous value from their data. They can glean business insights, make better decisions, foresee trends, recognize opportunities, anticipate customer desires, and stay ahead of competitors. To do all this, they must do two things. They must keep their data safe with an air-tight approach to backup and recovery to prevent downtime and… Continue reading Unified Management Is Key to Securing Your Data and Building Business Success