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As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, and China implements its most severe lockdown since the CoVID-19 pandemic began, it is imperative that businesses with international operations rethink their scenario planning. The pandemic, followed by the war, has exposed the downside of choosing e ....

The work of third-party risk management (TPRM) is ongoing. The moment a business ceases to actively work on protecting itself from risk, it falls behind. In part, that’s because world events and the tactics employed by cybercriminals are continually changing in ways that impact third-party risk. B ....

The holiday season is upon us, and you’d love to only be thinking about cookies, presents, and family. But present circumstances force us to play Scrooge and throw a “Bah! Humbug!” into the mix. For businesses and organizations this year (and their customers as well), all holiday celebrations ....

On a normal day when life is going well, no one wants to think about disasters. Committing time and budget to crisis preparedness can be a hard sell for businesses facing priorities that feel more immediate. Yet investing in preparation in advance is how you keep a crisis from turning into an absolu ....

Resilience is a watchword for every risk management team and every governing board. Resilience represents the ability of entities to avoid, prevent, adapt, respond to, recover from, and learn from operational disruptions.[i] While ensuring business continuity is a key aspect of business resilience, ....

When discerning what the pandemic taught us about business resilience, the lessons contain good news and bad news. On a positive note, we learned that effective business resilience, much like psychological resilience, is the result of “ordinary magic.” Organizations that demonstrated the grea ....