IT risk management

Fusion Risk Management Named Leader in Business Continuity Management Software Q2 2021 Report

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Monday, May 17, 2021

b'Fusion Risk Management, Inc. (\xe2\x80\x9cFusion\xe2\x80\x9d), a leading provider of operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management software and services, today announced it has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave\xe2\x84\xa2: Business Continuity Management Software Q2 2021.

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  • b'Fusion Risk Management, Inc. (\xe2\x80\x9cFusion\xe2\x80\x9d), a leading provider of operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management software and services, today announced it has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave\xe2\x84\xa2: Business Continuity Management Software Q2 2021.
  • The Forrester report states: \xe2\x80\x9cFusion Risk Management leads with advanced cloud-native features.
  • \xe2\x80\x9cWe are thrilled to be recognized by Forrester for our business continuity management offering, a holistic solution that has reimagined resilience and empowered our global customers to maintain continuity through a year of unmatched disruption.
  • More importantly, we are proud of our 15 years of market leadership and dedication to customer success, and we look forward to continuing to work with our global clients as we further evolve our offering, exceed market needs and drive resilience and business continuity into the future.\xe2\x80\x9d\nFusion Risk Management is a leading industry provider of cloud-based software solutions for operational resilience, encompassing business continuity, risk management, third-party management, information technology and security risk, and crisis and incident management.

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2021: Business Continuity Starts with You

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Monday, May 17, 2021

\xe2\x80\x9cAt Castellan, we are committed to creating resources that improve conversations from top to bottom, so that business continuity can truly start with you.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAs the largest provider of business continuity and operational resilience solutions \xe2\x80\x93 spanning consulting, software, managed services, and staffing \xe2\x80\x93 Castellan is uniquely positioned to help clients find the right balance of risk tolerance and resilience to protect their employees, brand, and bottom-line.

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  • \xe2\x80\x9cAt Castellan, we are committed to creating resources that improve conversations from top to bottom, so that business continuity can truly start with you.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAs the largest provider of business continuity and operational resilience solutions \xe2\x80\x93 spanning consulting, software, managed services, and staffing \xe2\x80\x93 Castellan is uniquely positioned to help clients find the right balance of risk tolerance and resilience to protect their employees, brand, and bottom-line.
  • Leveraging a proprietary proven process for driving business continuity success, Castellan partners with clients to establish a clear vision, drive real results, and provide on-going support from their community of business continuity experts.
  • Castellan helps clients replace uncertainty with confidence.
  • Now you\xe2\x80\x99re ready.TM\nView source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210517005268/en/\n'

WITT O’BRIEN’S LAUNCHES CO:RE™

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

CO:RETM integrates business continuity, crisis management, and crisis communications.

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  • CO:RETM integrates business continuity, crisis management, and crisis communications.
  • It provides a tailored resilience program for mid-sized firms seeking to protect their staff, clients, and enterprise value in the face of increasingly frequent and severe disruptions.\n\xe2\x80\x9cMid-sized companies face the same threats as their Fortune 500 competitors,\xe2\x80\x9d says Tim Whipple, CEO of Witt O\xe2\x80\x99Brien\xe2\x80\x99s.
  • \xe2\x80\x9cThese range from pandemics, hurricanes, wildfires, and earthquakes to cyber-attacks, supply chain failure, or a product recall.
  • If disaster strikes, we deploy in a matter of hours to help them respond and recover as quickly as possible.

Readiness Associates Appoints Kay Aikin to Chair Advisory Board

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

b'PORTLAND, Maine, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Readiness Associates (RA), a full-service emergency preparedness and business continuity solutions consultancy, today announces the appointment of Kay Aikin as Chair of the company\'s newly formed Advisory Board.

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  • b'PORTLAND, Maine, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Readiness Associates (RA), a full-service emergency preparedness and business continuity solutions consultancy, today announces the appointment of Kay Aikin as Chair of the company\'s newly formed Advisory Board.
  • This group is charged with guiding the next phase of the company\'s growth as it expands into global markets and pursues its mission to be the first line of defense to mitigate any manmade or natural threat.\n"I am honored to serve as Advisory Board Chair of Readiness Associates, another innovative, forward-thinking company in Portland," stated Ms. Aikin.
  • I am excited to contribute my expertise in helping Readiness Associates address these critical challenges facing all types of enterprises.
  • "\nReadiness Associates (RA) enables leaders from all types of organizations to confidently assess and overcome critical threats with customized emergency preparedness and business continuity planning.

Axcient Adds x360Recover Direct-to-Cloud Enhancements and Announces Local Cache Beta

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

b"DENVER, Colo., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Axcient , a leader in business availability software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), announced key enhancements to its x360Recover Direct-to-Cloud solution, which offers best-in-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) without the need for local appliances.

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  • b"DENVER, Colo., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Axcient , a leader in business availability software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), announced key enhancements to its x360Recover Direct-to-Cloud solution, which offers best-in-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) without the need for local appliances.
  • With local cache, I expect to get even more value with rapid local recovery\xe2\x80\x94essentially insurance for our insurance.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAxcient is offering partners an opportunity to beta its local cache technology.
  • Local cache provides a fast, affordable, and reliable way to recover data locally with commodity storage to speed up recovery operations without an expensive appliance.\nNowacky continued: \xe2\x80\x9cAxcient\xe2\x80\x99s local cache technology was developed to make it easier for partners to backup and protect data from anywhere, on any device.
  • With local cache, partners can forget the hassle of downtime and rely on the technology to recover data quickly.\xe2\x80\x9d\nThe combination of local cache and Axcient's x360Recover Direct-to-Cloud ensures reliable recovery, simple pricing, no overages or surprise bills, and RTO speed.\nThe top three benefits of local cache with Direct-to-Cloud include:\nTo sign up for the local cache beta trial, please reach out to your sales representative.

Infinite Blue Survey Finds Companies with Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plans in Place Prior to COVID-19 Pandemic Proved "Not Very Useful"

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Findings revealed that although respondents had business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans in place, when put to the test of an extended, multi-vector challenge such as the COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic response plans were "not very useful.

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  • Findings revealed that although respondents had business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans in place, when put to the test of an extended, multi-vector challenge such as the COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic response plans were "not very useful.
  • "\nAlthough pandemic response plans were in place for 89% of respondents, not everyone felt that particular departments were as prepared as others.
  • Infinite Blue Platform is at the heart of countless business applications running in a wide variety of industries worldwide.
  • No other solution provider offers rapid speed-to-market and robust scalability in an all-in-one solution.\nInfinite Blue is headquartered in Collegeville, PA.\n'

Jensen Hughes Announces Rebranding of Hillard Heintze, Technical Response Planning Corporation and Russell Phillips & Associates

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Monday, May 3, 2021

"\nTRP, formerly headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a market leader specializing in emergency, business continuity, and security planning services and systems.

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  • "\nTRP, formerly headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a market leader specializing in emergency, business continuity, and security planning services and systems.
  • "Working within Jensen Hughes has allowed us to build upon our accomplishments, sharing our expertise widely and expanding our reach to other industries.
  • "\nBeginningMay 3, the Hillard Heintze, TRP and RPA brands will officially merge under the Jensen Hughes name, solidifying their position, offerings and direction in the industry.
  • Our major business lines include fire protection engineering, risks and hazards, security risk consulting, emergency management and planning, and forensic engineering.

Leading Industry Research Firm Identifies Greater Demand for Modern Data Protection

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

b'Zerto , an industry leader in cloud data management and protection, announced the full findings of the IDC White Paper, sponsored by Zerto, \xe2\x80\x9c The State of Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Readiness: 2021 .

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  • b'Zerto , an industry leader in cloud data management and protection, announced the full findings of the IDC White Paper, sponsored by Zerto, \xe2\x80\x9c The State of Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Readiness: 2021 .
  • Nearly one third (31.1%) of respondents reported a direct loss of revenue, and 35% suffered from instances of unrecoverable data.
  • As the report highlights, one of the key technologies now emerging to help IT organizations improve data protection, reduce data loss, and recover data more quickly is continuous data protection (CDP).
  • Zerto enables an always-on customer experience by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of applications and data across private, public, and hybrid clouds.

RapidScale, a Cox Business Company, Achieves HITRUST CSF® Certification to Further Mitigate Risk in Third-Party Privacy, Security, and Compliance

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Monday, April 26, 2021

This achievement places RapidScale in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification.

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  • This achievement places RapidScale in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification.
  • HITRUST is consistently innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges," said Duane Barnes, Vice President and General Manager, RapidScale.
  • "We are pleased to demonstrate to our customers the highest standards for protecting sensitive data and information by achieving HITRUST CSF Certification.
  • "The achievement of a HITRUST CSF Certification provides reliable assurances that RapidScale is taking information risk management and compliance seriously.

Baltic Data Center Operators DEAC and DLC Developed a Reliable Business Continuity Solution

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

b"Data center operator DEAC, in cooperation with the Lithuanian company Data Logistics Center (DLC), pooled their resources and created a disaster recovery solution for enterprises, based on two data centers in Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania).\nNow DEAC provides its customers with the opportunity to choose the main and backup data center infrastructure location either in Riga or Vilnius.

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  • b"Data center operator DEAC, in cooperation with the Lithuanian company Data Logistics Center (DLC), pooled their resources and created a disaster recovery solution for enterprises, based on two data centers in Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania).\nNow DEAC provides its customers with the opportunity to choose the main and backup data center infrastructure location either in Riga or Vilnius.
  • Combining the resources of the Latvian and Lithuanian companies allows them to provide even more secure business continuity solutions.\nDisaster recovery principles imply deployment of a redundant IT infrastructure in a geographically remote data center.
  • Up-to-date solutions for the implementation of a disaster recovery plan (Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service, DRaaS) ensure high level of business continuity.\nDEAC and DLC data centers comply with the highest security standards and provide efficient network connections with secure encryption.\nDEAC is one of the largest independent data center operators in Northern Europe.
  • Years of experience developing and implementing a wide range of secure IT services allows DEAC to create individual solutions for industries\xe2\x80\x99 specifics and business goals of customers from more than 40 countries.\nDLC (Data Logistics Center) is one of the largest data center and communications operators in the Baltics.