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The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: 4 Key Lessons

DRI Drive

4, Facebook suffered one of its longest outages of nearly six hours, which was long enough to majorly disrupt online retail and global communications networks and create panic and confusion among users. What can resilience professionals learn from the social network’s surprise crash?

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Retail Industry Challenges – Staffing, Employee Burnout, Customer Behavior, and Community Engagement

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 151: Retail Industry Challenges – Staffing, Employee Burnout, Customer Behavior, and Community Engagement Today we’re joined by Vernetta Purcell-Morrow , the director of human resources for the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board. Download the 2023 OnSolve Global Risk Impact Report at [link].

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Behind the Scenes of a Human Resources Case Study for a Retail Organization

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 152: Behind the Scenes of a Human Resources Case Study for a Retail Organization Vernetta Purcell-Morrow , the director of human resources for the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board is back to share her experience hiring Asfalis Advisors to conduct an human resources audit.

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How retailers are improving productivity, transforming incident response, and empowering teams with PagerDuty by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

For retailers, uptime is money and issues can cost thousands of dollars per minute. At our 2021 Summit, representatives from retailers Hudson’s Bay Company , Bunnings , and Loblaw discussed how PagerDuty is helping them to empower teams, achieve visibility, and proactively resolve problems.

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Peer-Benchmarked Threat Resilience Metrics

FS-ISAC

It would be nice to have a clear answer for senior management and regulators about threat resiliency. While we’re at it, a single quantitative score to describe threat resilience would be fantastic. These organizations have developed dashboards comparing their business units or geographies’ threat resilience metrics.

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Peer-Benchmarked Threat Resiliency Metrics

FS-ISAC

It would be nice to have a clear answer for senior management and regulators about threat resiliency. While we’re at it, a single quantitative score to describe threat resilience would be fantastic. These organizations have developed dashboards comparing their business units or geographies’ threat resilience metrics.

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Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2023

AWS Disaster Recovery

10: Build a serverless retail solution for endless aisle on AWS In this post, Sandeep and Shashank help retailers and their customers alike in this guided approach to finding inventory that doesn’t live on shelves. If resiliency is a concern (and it really should be), the secret is test, test, TEST. Let’s Architect Check it out!