Identifying impact tolerances for important business services is a vital aspect of operational resilience: but, once these are established, they need to be assessed and confirmed through the use of scenario testing.
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In an article by solutions architects Dumlu Timuralp and Eric Heinrichs, AWS has described how to achieve business continuity in AWS by using Amazon EFS and Amazon EKS across AWS Regions.
High-risk individuals are people who face heightened risks affecting their personal safety and security. Threats may arise from the person’s role in the organization, or from their history, nationality, or political activities.
Backups have been a somewhat boring but vital aspect of business continuity and disaster recovery for decades but recent targeting by cybercriminals to enhance the impacts of ransomware attacks has placed backups in the spotlight – and has highlighted some common problems.
The UK National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) has launched a campaign encouraging all organizations to ‘Be Insider Risk Ready’.
Identifying impact tolerances for important business services is one of the main ingredients for developing an operational resilience management system in any type of organization.
Industrial automation has seen strong growth, partly as a response to the need for resilience against recent supply chain disruption and pandemic-related workforce issues. This growth is anticipated to hit a new level, as the benefits of artificial intelligence in this area start to be realised. However, this also introduces risks that need to be explored and managed, as Dr. Louis Gritzo explains…
A new open access academic paper looks at the role of antifragility in supply chain resilience and how the emerging concept of supply chain antifragility helps companies focus on positive change arising from disruption.
Involving suppliers in operational resilience exercises brings a number of benefits. Here, Steve Richardson provides some thoughts for consideration…
The International SOS Risk Outlook 2024 data identifies burnout, the cost-of-living crisis and mental health concerns as the top risks to organizational wellbeing this year, making these pressing issues for organizational resilience.