Disaster Recovery Journal Spring 2024

The Path to Continuity and Resilience Program

political landscape, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, the newly sparked conflict in the Middle East, increased political ten sions, and regional and global banking failures. It has become increasingly clear organizations must rise to the occasion and bolster their risk, continuity, resilience, and regulatory compliance efforts or face potential disruptions that could severely damage businesses’ financial and reputa tional well-being. It is essential that organizations evalu ate how the risk environment has evolved over the past year if they hope to be more prepared in 2024. To start, organizations must consider the impact widespread dis ruptions had throughout 2023. Geopolitical tensions threaten supply chains The war in Ukraine and the resulting Russian sanctions have forced Western organizations to deploy contingency plan-

Success in 2024 By STEVE RICHARDSON T he evolving threat landscape has caused risk, continuity, resilience, and compliance teams to face several new challenges throughout 2023 as global disruptions have increased in size and impact. The challenges organizations

have experienced could be a precursor for what is coming in 2024 – which means organizations must act now to strengthen their risk management and resilience pos tures to best position themselves to remain operational in 2024. Every industry felt the effects of dis ruption in 2023 due to the shifting geo

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