Business & IT Resilience

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 […]

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 […]

Over time, enterprises, institutions, and organizations will face disasters that could temporarily or permanently disrupt their operations. These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity […]

No venture is without risk. Assessing and managing risk and its potential impact on business is a critical role of business leaders. With the world becoming increasingly digital, IT departments must manage and mitigate more and more risk using both new technology and improved processes and practices. The varied risks to critical IT systems and […]

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage  At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a great conference, and I was able to see some great AWS solutions up close and personal both from the AWS team and other vendors. But I am not […]

You have a great disaster recovery (DR) plan, and Zerto has helped simplify that even more by allowing your IT organization to consolidate multiple point products with a single, simple, and scalable solution. You have freed up valuable time for your IT operations teams to deliver more innovation as your business transforms. You have adopted […]