To ensure business continuity and resilience efforts are best in class, organizations rely on standards -- both established and new. Standards help organizations identify and prioritize threats. The majority of standards associated with business [...]
While most resilience professionals are focusing on how to protect their organizations’ information technology (IT) infrastructures, a reminder on how important critical infrastructures are to the nation is timely. Considering the impact cybersecurity attacks [...]
Public and private sector organizations that depend on their supply chains will benefit from standards and guidance to establish supply chain continuity and resilience. Supply chains are integral components of just about any type [...]
Still growing in deployment worldwide, cloud technology is a popular way to augment IT operations or to even replace traditional IT infrastructures with cloud-based solutions. Traditional reasons for moving to a cloud environment include [...]
An important way to demonstrate progress toward achieving operational resilience is to use key performance indicators. This article describes KPIs and provides examples of KPIs for resilience. Perhaps the number one concern of resilience professionals [...]
An important aspect of a proactive and effective cybersecurity initiative is the inclusion of content and guidance from the many available domestic and international standards and guidance documents. This article lists the most important and [...]
The nation’s power grid is among the most critical infrastructures, as it is used by virtually everybody, and its loss would be catastrophic. This article examines the power grid, its risks and what is being [...]
Resilience has become an important boardroom discussion point. Senior leadership has begun to accept the fact that being able to recover from a disruptive event may not be enough. It is becoming more important to [...]
In today’s increasingly complex world of resilience, particularly as the country manages through the COVID-19 pandemic, compliance with a broad range of standards, regulations and other criteria has grown in importance. Compliance with government-issued mandates, [...]
Despite discussions today about repatriating IT data infrastructures from cloud environments to on-site data centers, many organizations still have made a significant investment in cloud technology. In addition to running key applications, it is also [...]
A recent survey conducted by US Signal (www.ussignal.com) of IT decision-makers showed that disaster recovery (DR), data backup and security are the top priorities of data center managers when selecting a data center location, edge [...]
Businesses of all sizes today use voice over IP (VoIP) technology for their phone systems. The use of data networks for transporting voice communications has grown dramatically over the past 20 years. VoIP leverages the [...]