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
Rewriting the BIA Playbook for Today’s Enterprise Risk
For many organizations, the traditional business impact analysis (BIA) has long served as a foundational component of business continuity planning. Historically, BIAs were designed to evaluate operational disruptions such as
Make the Best Choice Between General-Purpose and Purpose-Built Backup Appliances
Organizations have long viewed backup appliances as repositories for accelerating backups, storing their backup data, and reducing data stores. While they still fulfill those roles, they now play a more
Quality and Resilience Risks in Global Supply Chains
Global supply chains create extraordinary competitive advantages — access to the world’s best suppliers, lowest costs, and most capable logistics networks. They also expose enterprises to two compounding categories of
Career Spotlight: Irene Chukwuma
Tell us about yourself – your name, company, title, and responsibilities? My name is Irene Chukwuma, and I’m a business resilience, risk, and IT quality assurance professional with more than
A New Framework for a New Resilience Reality
If there is one thing I have learned after nearly four decades around this profession, it is that resilience never stands still. The risks change. Technology changes. Organizations change. And
The Real AI Security Challenge Starts with Data Movement
An employee pastes a few paragraphs of proprietary code into a public chatbot. Another asks an AI assistant to summarize next quarter’s financial forecast. Someone uploads a customer contract to
Your AI Risk Management Policy Needs an Enforcement Layer
Here’s the thing about agentic AI risk management: everyone has a framework. Almost nobody has a way to enforce it. Agentic AI risk management is the practice of evaluating and
Crisis Support Debt™: Why Your Most Reliable Systems Are Your Biggest Blind Spot
Every business continuity professional knows the feeling. A system has run for years without a serious incident. Uptime reports are green. Service-level agreements are met quarter after quarter. Then a
Recovery Readiness Is the New Measure of Cybersecurity Success
For decades, cybersecurity has been measured by one question: can we prevent an attack? Billions have been invested into firewalls, endpoint detection, identity security, and other defenses, all built around
