November 14, 2024
Don’t Take a Vacation on Resiliency.
The leaves have turned, there’s a brisk bite to the air after the sun goes down, and I’m getting a ton of e-mails about Black Friday sales. That can only mean one thing: the holidays are coming. Regardless of what or how you choose to celebrate, the holidays make for a distinctly different time of year […]
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October 25, 2024
Key Considerations For IT Leaders During Mergers And Acquisitions
Merger and acquisition deals picked up the pace during the first half of this year, signaling a comeback from the prior year’s slower M&A market. Industries ranging from technology services and finance to retail and healthcare continue to join the deal-making. Expect more to come, as EY forecasts a 21% increase in the number of corporate deals […]
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October 03, 2024
What’s Old is New: Resistance to Change Hurts Resiliency
Resistance to changing the status quo is probably one of the oldest and most common challenges that organizations face whenever programs try to grow. It seems like whenever companies are trying to bring forward a new program (or improve an existing one), factions coalesce bringing up reasons why the change shouldn’t happen. Admittedly, sometimes those objections […]
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September 26, 2024
Expert Engineers Share The Top Tech Trends To Know
Which technology trends are capturing the attention of engineering experts? In a year of headline-making technology decisions by Fortune 500 companies, and a sharp uptick in organizations turning to artificial intelligence, we asked Sayers engineering leaders which technology developments hold the most potential to enhance security and efficiency. The internal roundtable of engineering leaders highlighted […]
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September 12, 2024
What’s Old is New: Pre-Staging Can Make All the Difference
When you’re in the middle of a business interruption, I think it’s safe to say time is your biggest enemy. Every minute vital systems are down it costs you money and lost productivity, and potentially puts your reputation at risk in the marketplace. Also, depending on the type of incident, minutes or seconds can make a life-or-death difference. […]
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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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