Sandi Hamilton looks at the importance of considering the human factor when planning and managing high availability environments for critical applications such as SQL Server. She considers inherent organizational issues which result in continuity gaps and discusses the communication and documentation practices that can reduce failures.
A security breach of a privileged account is a nightmare that organizations hope they will never need to respond to. Alan Radford explains how next generation privileged access management (PAM) solutions provide assurance in this area; and what such a PAM should include.
Every country has had a different approach to managing COVID-19 but South Africa’s approach has been different to many. This article provides an overview and looks at some implications and learning points from a business continuity point of view.
COVID-19 has shown organizations that sometimes change can be forced upon us in ways that it would be impossible to predict. Petra Morrison says that there are various superpowers which exist in most organizations which can provide the necessary agility to respond - if they are brought together.
Business continuity news
SIFMA leads securities industry business continuity test in the US
BCI releases final shortlist for the 2020 Global Awards
CIR Business Continuity Awards will now be a virtual event
How effective has business continuity management been during the COVID-19 pandemic?
DRI Awards of Excellence 2021 are open for entries
Pandemic response highlights siloed approach to business continuity and crisis management
Enterprise risk management news
RIMS report looks at why organizations are moving from ERM to strategic risk management
NIST publishes guide to integrating cyber security and enterprise risk management
UK Business Secretary urges businesses to prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period
2020 Travelers Risk Index finds fewer US companies are taking steps to mitigate cyber threats
Deepfakes are a threat that businesses need to take seriously...
Resilience news
Experts team up to develop supply chain resilience stress testing using digital twins
Gartner says organizations should use ‘composability’ to be resilient and agile during uncertainty
New study shows that agility is one of the keys to resilience
Roundup of September’s natural disasters
DHS Homeland Threat Assessment highlights key risks
New guidebook on 'How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning' published
Technology news
2020 Trustwave Data Security Index report finds that perceived threats do not match actual incidents
New control architecture defends complex interconnected systems against cyber attacks
Cyber attacks becoming more sophisticated, targeted, widespread and undetected says ENISA
New BCI report looks at ‘Technology & Business Continuity in Organizational Resilience’
Addressing the risks related to unstructured data through the use of object stores