Strategies for Effective Risk Management for Outdoor Events
While there are many perks to having an outdoor event — fresh air, less maintenance, and reduced costs — there is also a fair share of risks. The weather may be unpredictable, your equipment could malfunction, and your event may be inaccessible to some of the guests. Any business should acknowledge the risks and create… Continue reading Strategies for Effective Risk Management for Outdoor Events
Exploring Enterprise Security Risk Management
Enterprise security risk management (ESRM) is a comprehensive approach organization employ to identify, assess, and mitigate security and compliance risks which could impact their operations, assets, and overall business objectives. ESRM encompasses various activities, such as risk assessment, threat analysis, vulnerability identification, risk treatment planning, and continuous monitoring to ensure ongoing security and protection of… Continue reading Exploring Enterprise Security Risk Management
5 Tips for Organizations to Effectively Secure Their APIs
In today’s increasingly interconnected and automated world, network cybersecurity has become more complex than ever before. The proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) has contributed to this complexity, with their numbers growing rapidly each year. However, along with this growth, the number of exposures and vulnerabilities associated with APIs has also increased. To protect themselves… Continue reading 5 Tips for Organizations to Effectively Secure Their APIs
Mastering the Cloud Journey: Your Comprehensive Guide to Successful Workload Placement in the Public Cloud
The public cloud has catapulted to the forefront of business strategy, reshaping how organizations function and innovate. The numbers speak for themselves. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is set to skyrocket 21.7% to a jaw-dropping $597.3 billion in 2023, per Gartner. Although multi-cloud usage has dropped from 89% to 87% over the past… Continue reading Mastering the Cloud Journey: Your Comprehensive Guide to Successful Workload Placement in the Public Cloud
Combatting Business Continuity Fatigue: Innovative Strategies for Keeping Your Team Engaged
In the dynamic and often unpredictable world of business, continuity management has become a mainstay, an enduring guard against potential operational disruptions. However, just as a candle flickers before burning out, prolonged periods of vigilance and repeated cycles of crisis management can lead to what’s known as “business continuity fatigue.” This is an invisible, yet… Continue reading Combatting Business Continuity Fatigue: Innovative Strategies for Keeping Your Team Engaged
Adapting Weather Response Plans to Handle Compounding Disasters
Over time, it has become increasingly clear the climate is changing. In recent years, hurricanes have made landfall along the Gulf Coast as Category 4 (Harvey, Laura, Ida, and Ian) or 5 (Michael). In the past, hurricanes would weaken as they approached land; now, they intensify. In addition to intensified tropical events, supercell thunderstorms and… Continue reading Adapting Weather Response Plans to Handle Compounding Disasters
Disk-based Backup Targets Up Their Game to Meet Ransomware’s Challenges
Organizations may consider their backup problems solved. Having replaced tape with disk as their primary backup target over the past 20 years, they no longer view backup as a challenge. However, new threats have entered corporate environments which specifically target backups hosted on disk. Disk-based backup targets still need to facilitate fast backups and optimize… Continue reading Disk-based Backup Targets Up Their Game to Meet Ransomware’s Challenges
Maximize Exercising Preparation
The business continuity management (BCM) profession continues to grow and evolve. With an ever-changing workplace, regulations, employees, leadership, etc., are companies as prepared for an incident as they should be? Now may be a good time to evaluate what is needed for your exercise program to be successful today, tomorrow, and in the years to… Continue reading Maximize Exercising Preparation
The Importance of the BIA Pre-Work
Once upon a time, there was a business continuity consulting firm that held BIA interviews with their clients without getting them to provide basic information about their business units ahead of time. As the owner and CEO of that firm, I can tell you, doing it that way was a big mistake. The interviews went… Continue reading The Importance of the BIA Pre-Work
Post Disaster Lessons: What Should be Learned and How
As the world today witnesses unprecedented disasters and crises of all types and sizes and at all fronts, it’s imperative to know how to cope with these incidents. It’s also important to know how to make use of the lessons derived from these disasters each and every time they occur, regardless if they are natural,… Continue reading Post Disaster Lessons: What Should be Learned and How