August 22, 2024
What’s Old is New: Corporate Acquisitions are (Almost) Always Resiliency Problems
Mergers and acquisitions are a part of life in today’s business climate, even in the world of business resiliency. (Although there is some debate as to whether struggling economic times are less favorable for mergers and acquisitions overall.) They’ve also been a part of business for hundreds of years — at times they’ve even shaped the course of history. This […]
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July 25, 2024
What’s Old is New: The CrowdStrike Outage – “Sometimes patches break things…”
It was all over the news and it probably affected your life in some way too. Security vendor CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty software update that made windows PCs crash on reboot, just after Midnight Eastern Time the morning of July 19th, 2024. Whether you were one of the thousands of people that were stranded at an airport, had […]
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July 18, 2024
Top 10 Takeaways From Gartner Security And Risk Management Summit
In a year when 80% of CIOs are increasing their investment in cybersecurity, the 2024 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit drew more than 5,000 cybersecurity executives for the latest trends, technologies, operations and leadership insights. Today’s organizations are dealing with increasing cybersecurity compromises and significant talent shortfalls in cybersecurity. This year’s summit kept that context in mind […]
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July 02, 2024
What’s Old is New: “Technical Debt” in Resiliency
Technical Debt is a concept that’s foreign to a lot of people on the surface, but it’s something that people in business contend with continuously. It’s also a problem I have encountered for as long as I have been working in resiliency, and in a lot of cases people don’t even recognize the phenomena until it’s […]
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June 13, 2024
What’s Old is New: The Enduring Value of Tabletop Exercises
I’ve been working in business resiliency for over 20 years now, and Tabletop Exercises were around long before I got into the industry. This is the second blog in my “What’s Old Is New” blog series. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower How long? In my limited research, I have not been able […]
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June 06, 2024
Data Protection Strategies: Safeguard Your Data from Cyber Threats
The relentless drumbeat for data protection and data backups leaves organizations wondering if they’re doing everything they can to safeguard their data. The challenge includes protecting customers’ data privacy, adhering to compliance regulations, and recovering organizational data after cyberattacks and natural disasters. Cybercriminals are going after your data, including your backups. Bad actors who can […]
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May 30, 2024
Thoughts on “The Velveteen Rabbit: Can AI Create Viable Resiliency Plans?”
AI is definitely THE hot topic this year when I go to conferences, and it’s the latest buzz word in every product feature demonstration that I encounter lately. (If attendance at my conference presentations is any indicator, AI is about 5 times more interesting than anything else I’ve presented about.) And, as one of my coworkers […]
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May 16, 2024
What’s Old is New: Strengthening IT’s Role in Business Resilience
In all my years working in resiliency, when I was managing programs myself and now that I am helping other companies with their programs, it seems the two most scarce resources are always money and time. This is the first blog in my “What’s Old Is New” blog series. “Every year is getting shorter, never seem to […]
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April 11, 2024
When Is Employee Retention A Resiliency Issue?
A couple of decades ago, back when I was working as a System Administrator, I had a contracting gig working for a utility company. As utilities go they were fairly small, but they were still a large company with a few thousand employees. There were probably a half-dozen of us there working as System Administrators, maintaining […]
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March 14, 2024
Can You Plan For “The Big Cell Network Outage”?
AT&T’s cellular network experienced a widespread outage on February 22nd, 2024. AT&T reported that this outage was caused by problems related to a software update, and the outage itself lasted several hours. Not only was AT&T’s network impacted, several other carriers that use AT&T’s network also experienced downtime. I wrote about this at some length a couple of […]
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