News from Resilience Forward

SolarWinds has released its 2025 IT trends report, Fragile to Agile: The State of Operational Resilience.

Gartner has published its Quarterly Emerging Risk Report, which captures the views of 223 senior risk and assurance executives.

Commvault has announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB. This is an advanced offering that ‘transforms how organizations recover data from one of the most widely used cloud-native NoSQL databases in the world’, says Commvault.

Much attention, particularly in the financial sector, is being given to critical third-parties and the threat of a major service outage. David Ferbrache explores the issue.

There has been a lot of focus on operational resilience over the past couple of years but this misses some essential aspects of resilience; building resilience by design and the need to focus on people resilience.

Data from a Node4 report shows that the vast majority of C-Suite leaders in mid-market are highly confident in their organization’s ability to prevent and respond to cyber attacks – but other data suggests that this confidence is misplaced.

The UK Government recently conducted a public consultation on proposals to reduce ransomware threats by stopping some organizations from paying ransoms to cyber criminals and requiring ransomware reporting.

The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, threatening their structural integrity and downstream businesses and communities, according to new research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

The ASIS Foundation has published a new research-based report, Operational Resilience: The Critical Contribution of Security to Operational Resilience.

Various cyber security agencies have issued urgent warnings about a critical but currently unpatched in various versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server.