Disaster Recovery Journal Spring 2025

Services For Cybersecurity Incident Response Receive the Largest Budget Increase Additional budget will be welcome to not only meet compliance requirements but also shore up resilience practices and technologies. Services for cybersecu rity incident response will see the larg est bump in budget: 32% of respondents report a budget increase. The smallest bump will be for technology/services for workforce recovery (15%). During the COVID-19 pandemic, many organiza tions found themselves working quickly to ensure employees could work from anywhere, which “solved” the idea of workforce resilience. However, looking deeper into the data, some areas will see large increases of more than 10%, includ ing staffing for ongoing resilience (10%), technology/services to facilitate crisis and emergency services (9%), and technol ogy/services for IT recovery (9%) (see Figure 9). In a rush to meet mandates, organizations are looking to services as well as technologies to help fill the gaps they cannot otherwise. Research Methodologies Forrester and Disaster Recovery Journal conducted this joint survey from October to November 2024. The survey targeted global business continuity, disas

v Amy DeMartine leads Forrester’s security and risk research team, focusing on business, data, and application risk. She provides insights on building resilient enterprises that not only withstand but also capitalize on uncer tainty. DeMartine advises global clients on sustainability strategy, business and operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and business continuity

ter recovery, and security and risk professionals affiliated with Forrester and DRJ. Additional responses were gathered via LinkedIn. Respondents were screened to ensure relevant exper tise and job responsibilities, creating a valuable dataset for indus try benchmarking.

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