Business & IT Resilience

In the previous post of this risk management series, we covered the business impact analysis (BIA), which is a crucial step in understanding the impact of potential disruptions to critical business processes. Now, we move on to the next critical step in the process: risk assessment, and its first stage, risk identification. What Is Risk […]

Ransomware threats and cyberattacks continue to grow in frequency, severity, and sophistication. A recent study by IDC found most disaster recovery incidents in the last 12 months were triggered by ransomware and malware. The cost of executing an attack continues to fall thanks to the rise of ransomware as a service, and successful ransom payments […]

The Critical Role of Business Impact Analysis In the first part of our miniseries on risk management, we introduced the operational risk management process and outlined its different parts. This time, we are exploring one of those key parts: the business impact analysis (BIA) process. In today’s increasingly complex business landscape, organizational leaders must understand […]

Risk management describes how a business identifies, analyzes, and responds to threats and risk factors that impact its profitability, viability, and strategic goals. These threats are varied and include emergencies, natural disasters, IT and technological issues, legal and regulatory problems, and financial uncertainties. Risk management attempts to control future threats by planning preemptively and deploying […]

When disaster strikes, preparedness determines whether an organization quickly recovers or goes offline, suffering data loss and financial impact. If you want to recover from disaster well, then a disaster recovery (DR) runbook should be an indispensable part of your DR strategy. A DR runbook is a collection of recovery processes and documentation that simplifies […]

IT is filled with acronyms. From A to Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA), there’s no shortage of letter combinations that make up technical jargon. However, these acronyms help us quickly describe the relationship between technical functions, like two that we hear often when talking about application infrastructure: SRE and DR. Site reliability engineering (SRE) and […]

In the concluding part of our five part mini-series, we are going to put the pieces together. We’ll see how the three dimensions we consider foundational to building business resilience—operational resilience (part two), IT resilience (part three), and cyber resilience (part four)—relate to business continuity, a tangible part of business resilience in the immediate to […]

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three, in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), it is imperative that an organization […]

Let’s summarize where we stand. In part one, we covered business resilience. In part two, we went over operational resilience and showed its slightly narrower scope and approach. In part three, we are going to look at a cornerstone of business resilience, IT resilience. What Is IT Resilience? IT resilience refers to the ability to […]

In part one of this five-part mini-series, we covered business resilience and highlighted three aspects of resilience on which an organization has the most control. Let’s cover the first one of these: operational resilience. What Is Operational Resilience? Operational resilience describes the ability of an organization to prevent, detect, prepare for, respond to, and recover […]

In recent years, organizations across the globe have faced a series of challenges—from regulatory upheavals and evolving trends, to evolving consumer needs and supply chain disruptions. Regardless of the event, companies need to be able to respond quickly to disruptions that critically impact their data assets and core operations. This may require accelerating digital transformation […]

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. As such, organizational leaders must thoroughly understand these terms: their similarities and differences, and how to leverage them to safeguard their business operations from threats and disruptive events. Differentiating […]