What Should a Restoration Company Build Before the Next Storm?
A restoration company can make its revenue for the whole year in one quarter, depending on the weather. That cuts
Operational Resilience
Building organizational resilience through adaptive capacity, redundancy planning, and operational flexibility.
A Second Region Is Not a Second Provider: Six Checks After the IDCF Outage
One ransomware attack on one cloud region took 495 organisations down together. Six checks for any single-cloud setup — regions, backups, service maps, secrets, images and DNS — drawn from the IDCF record.
How Should an Organization Plan a Precautionary Outage When a Critical Vulnerability Cannot Be Patched at Once?
The October 21 PHP emergency release left some organizations with a hard choice: stay online and exposed, or take services
What Does a Controlled Relaunch Actually Require?
Albert Heijn’s delivery outage will run at least 11 days, and Ahold Delhaize says it is working on a ‘controlled relaunch.’ Controlled is a checklist, not a reassurance: the seven questions an operator must answer before a customer-facing service turns back on.
The Failure Isn’t Yours: What SIMEX26 Rehearsed That a Failover Test Can’t
SIMEX26 put 38 systemic firms inside a global cloud outage on October 8. What a sector exercise proves about impact tolerances, third-party exit, and collective response that no single firm’s failover test can rehearse.
Can Your Backup App Bypass Your MFA?
MFA challenges people. A backup app signs in as itself, with permissions you granted — sometimes years ago. The ConnectWise Cloud Backup breach shows how that standing access bypasses MFA and outlives the vendor.
Resilience & Supply Chain Disruption Desk: CI Fortify Isolation Plans, Cloud SPOF Outages & DORA Register Gaps — Saturday, September 5, 2026
Executive business continuity intelligence briefing for Operations VPs, Chief Risk Officers, and BCP Directors for Saturday, September 5, 2026. CISA CI Fortify isolation mandates, H1 2026 cloud outage volume, vendor SPOF risks, and DORA Register of Information gaps.
Resilience & Supply Chain Disruption Desk: Critical Infrastructure Outages, Vendor SPOF Risks & BIA Directives — Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Executive business continuity intelligence briefing for Operations VPs, Chief Risk Officers, and BCP Directors for Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Multi-tier logistics bottlenecks, critical power grid readiness, ISO 22301 compliance metrics, and enterprise recovery action items.
Business Continuity Regulatory Convergence in 2026: DORA, CISA, ISO 22301, and the New Resilience Compliance Stack
DORA is the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act for financial entities (in force 17 Jan 2025; exams in 2026). It is not ISO 22301, not CISA CIRCIA, not NIS2. Why it matters: ICT risk, TLPT, incident clocks, third-party ICT. Verified 9 Sept 2026.
AI Dependency as a Business Continuity Risk: Building Resilience When Your Tools Think for Themselves
When Microsoft Copilot goes down or an AI-powered workflow tool fails, how long before operations halt? AI dependency has become the single-point-of-failure risk most BC plans haven’t addressed.
Geopolitical Risk and Business Continuity: Conflict, Sanctions, and Digital Infrastructure Threats
Published: April 2026 | Category: Operational Resilience What is Geopolitical Risk in Business Continuity? Geopolitical risk in business continuity encompasses
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