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The leader in business continuity education and certification across many industries, DRI International offers team training designed to fit the needs of every organization, from private corporations to the public sector and everywhere in-between.
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DRI International offers colleges and universities the opportunity to familiarize their students with information on business continuity professions and certifications recognized by private and public sector organizations around the world.
Certification Overview
Certification is a two-part process; verification of knowledge and confirmation of experience.
Value of Certification
A DRI International certification is the most widely recognized and respected business continuity certification in the world. DRI only certifies professionals that have demonstrated both knowledge and experience in the business continuity and/or disaster recovery profession.
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Maintaining your DRI International certification carries two requirements; an annual maintenance fee as well as Continuing Education Activity Points (CEAP).
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What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)?
BCM is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience.
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Calculating the True Cost of a Data Breach is Bad News for the Healthcare Sector
The costs of a data breach keep rising – a recent study comparing the costs of breaches among different industries and regions puts it at $3.86 million, a 6.5% increase from last year! Why so high? Hidden costs that are difficult and expensive to manage.
In the IBM/Ponemon Institute report, the average cost of a data breach per compromised record was $148, and took companies an average 196 day to detect a breach. At the top of the list: healthcare data breaches, which cost $408 per record, the highest of any industry for the eighth year in a row.
The top industries by cost per record:
The U.S. has some of the most expensive breaches in the world, where notification costs are nearly five times the global average, along with the Middle East, which has experienced the highest proportion of malicious attacks.
One aspect that affects the overall cost of a data breach: customer trust. While it’s not surprising to hear that organizations that suffer a breach lose customers, it’s those companies that work to improve customer trust that have actually reduced the number of lost customers, and reduced the cost of the breach as a result.
This year’s report also looked at the effects of AI and IoT devices for the first time, and found that AI security platforms can save companies an average of $8 per compromised record. On the other hand, companies that make heavy use of IoT devices pay about $5 more per compromised record.
