A Resilient Organization Starts with Cyber Resilience — Here’s Why

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Global events, such as recessions and pandemics, create enormous social and economic challenges that impact organizations and their management. From employee and customer satisfaction to financial difficulties, supply chain disruption and skyrocketing cyberattacks, top-level management oversees a wide range of concerns.

As business owners aim to address multiple challenges that may be a threat to their organizations’ success, resilience is a trending buzzword. Organizational resilience is an organization’s ability to foresee, plan for, respond to and adapt to gradual change and unexpected disruptions to survive and thrive.

Is Your Supply Chain Resilient?

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The major upheavals of the last couple of decades, such as the global recession and the COVID-19 pandemic, have demonstrated that firms will suffer severe setbacks if their supply chains are not resilient. An entire supply chain becomes vulnerable if one component is exposed to risk, just like a house of cards will topple if one section is out of balance.

Supply chain resilience refers to an organization’s ability to use its resources to handle unanticipated supply network disruptions. In other words, it is the ability to respond to and recover from challenges without disrupting operations or deadlines.

Positioning Your Business to Scale

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Businesses operate in a hostile environment where the only constant is “change”. Customer demands changing rapidly, new technologies transforming the business landscape, and regulations continue to be passed regularly making the modern business environment a struggle to navigate alone. How do you keep up? How does your business adapt quickly to the virtual jungle before being eaten alive?

Executives need to make decisions to counter the incoming barrage of issues, but quick decisions can sometimes become your downfall if customer and employee growth are not considered as well. Changes in processes without proper vetting, rapidly hiring personnel while rushing onboard training, and attempting hurried upgrades in infrastructure, could result in flawed implementations or massive confusion.

How to Adopt Zero Trust Security for Your SMB

With the cyberthreat landscape getting more complicated with every passing minute, cybersecurity deserves more attention than ever before. You can no longer put all your faith and trust in applications, interfaces, networks, devices, traffic and users. Misjudging and misplacing your trust in a devious entity can lead to severe breaches that can damage your business. Zero Trust Security practices, however, can go a long way towards helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) minimize cybersecurity risks and prevent data breaches.