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Operational resilience has weaved itself into the lexicon of the business continuity world, sometimes supplanting the term business continuity as a synonym. And the term’s fuzzy newness is mostly to blame. But when you jump into the details, the two ideas show their differences; operational resilience and business continuity aren’t a thesaurus loop and are actually tags for two separate — but related — ideas, much like weather and climate.

As the new year looms, what should business continuity planners look for in their larger review of their programs? Let’s go over a quick checklist.

With a projected $210 billion in online sales this year just from November to December alone, scammers are eager to get their share. Bad actors are prevalent all year round, but during these several weeks their efforts are ever increasing. Here are a few things to keep in mind that can help you stay safe while you add to your cart.

Insider threats are just another front for organizations to plan for and manage. And because insiders often already have access to critical systems and tools, organizations need to spin up special processes, plans, and strategies to combat the threat.

In 20 years, business continuity has grown from a concept contained in binders to fully-fledged programs capable of answering extreme business threats. Part of that transformation is thanks to technology, and business continuity tech will continue to push the boundary, setting new expectations for practitioners to meet.

This is a text transcript of the webinar originally recorded on June 30th, 2022, by the same name.

This is where the issue reveals itself: the loss of institutional and procedural knowledge. The increase of retirements and resignations means the loss experience across cumulative decades. The generational gap is massive in certain fields and threatens an unprecedented challenge. 

The best way to build a successful business continuity program, especially for the planners in higher education, is by creating a collaborative environment. Having a collaborative program can really benefit a business continuity program and a good business continuity program should be a synergistic effort amongst many departments.

While businesses can’t change their luck, they can plan against the worst intentions of disasters. The low odds of most events are not worth playing, and preparedness and all its price tags are worth the relief they provide when luck turns sour. 

While technology was able to keep up with the demands of the pandemic, the crisis also created new deliverables for technology to meet. With new knowledge, it's worth asking if resilience and continuity technology needs to adapt to the more digital world Covid-19 created.

Business continuity is intended to help a business shore up its weaknesses when these incidents happen. As a planner, you can implement dozens of policies and processes within your organization to build resilience, but interdependencies can still throw wildcards into your organization’s continuity planning.

When it was clear that employees would be working from home for the foreseeable future, organizations had to make a flurry of resources available and solidify key decisions. It was suddenly apparent that the key players in the protection of each organization against cybersecurity, the employees, were seemingly on their own.

This early February holiday, if anything, shows why planning is important. Even if we believe the groundhog, a good plan can make its surprises manageable. But there’s even more value in the movie that shares the namesake: “Groundhog Day.” The premise of the film passes off a great principle any continuity professional can apply to their program to bolster its readiness for disruptions.

There are notable differences between the two laws, however, and those differences are worth a discussion. In a past blog, we explored the impact of the GDPR on crisis management and business continuity, so we’re going to do something similar for the CCPA. What does the CCPA mean for incident response and business continuity?

The business continuity and emergency management managers of MIT, NYU, and VCU came together for a panel discussion on the challenges—and solutions—of being the engines behind these vital programs.

Risks today are increasingly interconnected, and the future forecasts a tighter bond will form between them. And thanks to the modern world’s web of risks, businesses and organizations can never be sure which dominoes will fall when an incident kicks off. Preparation, through business continuity planning, is essential for any entity hoping to have a lasting impact.