Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Mitigating this factor will yield dividends for any organization seeking to reduce Risk. Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. You can build the controls and practices to mitigate the deficiencies above. Machines do not have hubris.

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

Recent years have been marked by a series of critical events that have challenged the resilience of organizations across the globe. From cyberattacks to natural disasters, these events have demonstrated the importance of strengthening organizational resilience. Take for example building resilient digital systems.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” As you review the key objectives and recommendations, ask yourself: Is my security architecture resilient?

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

Modern organisations need to be able to dismantle the knowledge silos in order to avoid incident bottlenecks and reliance on a single individual, without compromising the resilience or security of their systems. This reduces MTTR, risk, and cost to the business as well as mitigate burnout on first-line response teams.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! This helps customers mitigate data loss and downtime, as they can now detect an anomaly within seconds, then protect and recover within just a few minutes.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But do these plans deliver operational resilience during the moment of truth? With the world becoming increasingly uncertain and risks proliferating, IT leaders must look beyond crisis management to be able to achieve operational resilience. Data center resilience.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

IT’s 4 Biggest Risks and How to Build Resilience against Them by Pure Storage Blog IT departments face risks and challenges on a daily basis—not all of which are necessarily within their ultimate control. That’s why “ resiliency ,” the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties, is key. Things will go wrong.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk. Identifying and reducing residual risk is the most cost-effective way of making an organization more resilient.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Without adequate technology resilience , a worse-case scenario is that the business can fall behind competitors and lose market share from damaging its reputational or financial status. Defining Cyber Resilience. ” Cyber risk, cyber resilience, cybersecurity, and IT risk are terms that are often used interchangeably.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

When a regional storm makes travel difficult and causes short-term power outages, for example, an effective business continuity plan will have already laid out the potential impact, measures to mitigate associated problems, and a strategy for communicating with employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

According to the 2022 Navigating Climate Threats and Proactive Mechanisms to Achieve Business Climate Resilience report commissioned by Everbridge, “record numbers of severe weather events attributed to climate change—such as hurricanes, droughts, extreme temperatures, and flooding—have resulted in more than $2.2

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Risk can never be eliminated but it can be mitigated. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how organizations can get started using Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to reduce their exposure and improve their resilience. Risk can never be completely removed, but it can be mitigated. ERM is all about reducing.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself. Customers, as well as internal team members, were severely impacted.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution. Increase resiliency. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company. Standardize observability.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Both represent critical points of failure. The post RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference?

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. It’s a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on small things, but it has the power to bring big gains to an organization’s resilience,” he wrote. This can be crippling during an outage.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

They help organizations anticipate, avoid, and prepare for impacts, saving money and improving resiliency. Simply put, it refers to the process of gathering and analyzing information about potential risks and threats that could impact the organization’s operations, assets, and overall resilience.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new regulation that creates a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk management framework for the European Union (EU) financial sector. What Is DORA?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2024

We want to help the organization get more competent at business continuity and become more resilient. Our commitment also explains why I find the tendency I want to discuss today so unfortunate, and why I’d like to make a suggestion aimed at mitigating it. We don’t just want to win the business and get paid. Those are the basics.

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Pure Storage

JULY 31, 2023

To address these concerns, companies are turning to multi-cloud storage solutions like Portworx ® to build a secure and resilient storage backbone. Vendor lock-in mitigation: Using multiple cloud providers eliminates dependency on a single vendor.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective. Its criticality points up the need for everyone involved in improving the organization’s resilience to have a clear understanding of these two fundamental terms and activities.

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Castellan

JUNE 10, 2021

So, what does this mean for operational resilience? Cyber resilience and operational resilience are emerging hand-in-hand. We already saw back in November 2020 the potential for large-scale failures when AWS had an outage that affected a number of well-known and widely used companies such as Adobe, Glassdoor, and Roku.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives. Ransomware Resilience : Zerto’s continuous data protection and point-in-time recovery capabilities make it an effective tool for combating ransomware attacks. Seeking help planning or updating your data protection strategy?

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

A viable NDRP is an essential component of any corporate risk mitigation program because it allows for rapid recovery from incidents that could otherwise lead to crippling business disruptions. By minimizing downtime and ensuring a faster resumption of services, an NDRP helps mitigate financial losses.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events. Your Data is Your Responsibility.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mitigating the environmental impact of data infrastructures requires a sustainable model with data storage that’s engineered to need less space, power, and cooling. Pure Storage ensures that data, the lifeblood of the digital business, is always available and resilient.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. Operational resilience.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

For me, it seems like the most resilient organisations will be able to survive or even thrive in this climate, and we can play an important part in making our organisations more resilient. Power outages. As there seems to be a world recession every 10-15 years, this would fit the pattern. Strikes and labour issues.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

For me, it seems like the most resilient organisations will be able to survive or even thrive in this climate, and we can play an important part in making our organisations more resilient. Power outages. As there seems to be a world recession every 10-15 years, this would fit the pattern. Strikes and labour issues.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Other BCM professionals.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) aims to ensure financial and operational resilience for individual businesses as well as ensure economic stability for the European Union (EU) as a whole. Another common challenge is misalignment across teams (38% reported this in our webinar) in regards to resilience capabilities.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. You can also develop individual department strategies and actions for recovery and continued operations during an emergency or outage event.)

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. In today’s post we’ll look at what the slots on a BCM team should be and the traits and skillsets needed in the team’s staff and leadership.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

For me, it seems like the most resilient organisations are going to be able to survive or even thrive in this climate, and we can play an important part in making our organisations more resilient. Power outages. As there seems to be a world recession every 10-15 years, this would fit the pattern. Strikes and labour issues.

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