When all or some of your organization’s critical operations are down, keeping things running smoothly and recovering quickly is everything. That means business continuity leaders like you must be able to communicate and execute crisis response plans quickly and effectively. OnSolve supports this endeavor with a platform that delivers speed, relevance, usability and actionable intelligence. In today’s complex threat landscape, you’re tasked with optimizing a continuous improvement process. OnSolve helps make this happen seamlessly, no matter the scenario. Here are just a few examples: Changes ..read more

Lessons From a Dark Day: Organizational Resilience in the Face of Disruption Risk is unavoidable. When a crisis strikes, the impact can bring all or some of an organization’s critical operations down. This dark day can be catastrophic, from revenue loss and reputation damage to operational disruption and even loss of life. While no one can stop bad things from happening, resilient organizations are prepared to mitigate risk and lessen the impact of a dark day. During this webinar, Kevin Popovich, Director of Physical Security and Compliance at KnowBe4 joins OnSolve’s Matt Bradley, Vice Presid ..read more

Effective business continuity is measured by an organization’s ability to continue operations and maintain solvency, regardless of critical events and the circumstances – both expected and unknown – that lead to them. What does it take? Proactive preparation and the resources to put your plan in motion are at the core. Let’s take a look at the factors that go into developing an effective business continuity strategy, and how you can make them work for you: 1. Confluence is inevitable: Prepare for interconnected critical events. How do your different departments affect each other’s operations ..read more

2021 was a complex year for businesses around the world. Between supply chain issues, COVID-19, cyber and physical threats, it often seemed like there was always something new lurking around the corner. But for every challenge faced, there were lessons learned. How can you take the challenges of 2021 and become stronger in 2022? Discover five tips about how to create resilience within your organization and confidently handle the coming year. In this ebook, you’ll learn: What organizational resilience means for you How to handle simultaneous crises Ways to address cyber and physical threats i ..read more

Reflections on 2021: Lessons in Dynamic Risk Risk is defined by its unpredictable nature—it can happen at any time and originate from any location. And the global chaos of the last few years has created a renewed and greater sense of urgency to find better ways to mitigate and manage risk. That’s why the time is right for a new approach that acknowledges the changing nature of risk itself—organizations must start thinking about dynamic risk. In this on-demand webinar, join Chris Hurst, OnSolve Vice President of Global Solution Sales, and Matt Bradley, OnSolve Vice President of Global Securit ..read more

A Recent Trend As our OnSolve leadership team reflects on 2020 and 2021, we note a trend in our conversations with Business Continuity (BC), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Physical Security (PS), Travel Risk Management (TRM) and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) leaders. At first, we did not connect the dots on a clear way to describe this trend. But over and over, our customers and partners have used the following phrase or something very similar: “I was expecting [Risk A], but then I got hit by [Risk B].” For example, seven days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in the gulf in Louisia ..read more

Like most everything in our world, today’s business climate is marked by constant change. Increasing severe weather events, workers distributed far afield, chronic political conflict, the ongoing pandemic – those are just a few of the features of today’s threat landscape. Staying ahead of it all requires thorough risk management. Yet when it comes to both existing and burgeoning risk, the majority of organizations are not adequately informed, let alone prepared. Despite the ever-increasing complexity of business that brings rising frequency and intensity of business interruptions, fewer than ..read more

We’re in a historic time. People across the world have faced a large number of simultaneous challenges, from a pandemic to multiple major storms and other critical events. Yet, we’ve also been given an extraordinary opportunity to leap forward with technology and digital capabilities because of the adversity we have endured. One important outcome of the pandemic is an expansion of the use of digital services and data sharing that has changed how we live, work and shop. Our challenge now is not to just create more innovative technology but to improve how we apply it. Our goal should be to impr ..read more

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. I wrote about this many years ago. With the recent COVID-19 events, it is time to look at it again. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan develop ..read more

Civil unrest, natural disasters, cyberattacks and global pandemics — every organization faces disruption at some point. A solid business continuity strategy can help any organization maintain resiliency in the face of crisis. If your organization is currently creating or revamping its business continuity program, you’re not alone. A recent PwC survey shows three out of four companies are confident they can successfully integrate what they’ve learned through the pandemic and invigorate their organizational resilience. But creating or updating your strategy can seem like a daunting task. Join u ..read more