Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Winter Events
As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Resiliency Professionals of Wisconsin – BRPW’s upcoming online events will focus on Business Resilience to Cyber Attacks (Nov. 13) and Building a Culture […] View More
Amazon’s Worldwide Web Outage: What Happened?
October 20 saw global chaos online, as Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud storage platform that hosts thousands of apps and websites, was down for hours. In that time, online activities around the world were unavailable, shining a light on just how vulnerable our interconnected technologies are. On Thursday, Oct. 23, Amazon released a statement […] View More
Collaborative Partner Spotlight: October 2025 and Beyond
As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Resiliency Professionals of Wisconsin – BRPW’s next online meeting will be held Oct. 9, on the subject of AI and business resiliency. […] View More
DRI LinkedIn Polls Reveal Views on Cybersecurity, Planning, and More
Are you following DRI International on LinkedIn? If not, you’re missing the chance to weigh in on some of the resilience community’s most talked-about subjects. We regularly poll our social media followers for their thoughts. Here are some of the topics and the responses: On Cybersecurity/AI: On Resilience Investing: More Resilience Issues: Join the conversation […] View More
Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Fall 2025
As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Continuity Planners Association – BCPA will host a Punch Bowl Social at the Shoppes on West End on Sept. 11, including food, […] View More
‘Business continuity and IT in resilience: improving collaboration’ – DRI’s Rachael Elliott for Resilience Forward
“Business continuity professionals know how to ensure that their organization has the means to recover critical activities in the event of a crisis. Meanwhile, IT professionals know how to build an information security management system (ISMS) which will identify threats, address system vulnerabilities, and ensure correct action is taken in the event of an impactful […] View More
‘Chronic risks, business continuity, and resilience’: DRI’s Rachael Elliott for Resilience Forward
“With many professionals battling to get the required level of investment into business continuity programmes, how can they go a stage further and gain additional corporate support for longer-term, proactive resilience initiatives? The following strategies may help with this predicament.” In her latest article for Resilience Forward, DRI Director of Global Strategy and Innovation Rachael […] View More
‘The UK Government Resilience Action Plan: what’s in it for resilience professionals?’ DRI’s Rachael Elliott for Resilience Forward
“The Government’s UK COVID-19 Inquiry highlighted its own failings in its first module, published in July 2024. It highlighted inadequate planning, dated and inadaptable plans, little consideration of existing health and social inequalities, limited scientific and inadequate training provided to Government ministers, flawed risk assessments, outdated documentation, and lack of freedom and autonomy to express […] View More
Partner Organization Spotlight: August 2025 and Beyond
As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Resiliency Professionals Association – Join BRPA for it Aug. 14 virtual event, From Climate to Cosmos: Weather Trends, Climate Data, and Space […] View More
A Perfect Storm of Resilience Threats is Coming for Perfume Makers
Supply chain, climate change, global trade, and logistics issues have impacted manufacturing and production in nearly all aspects of daily life. But challenges to one area have been quietly going unnoticed – fragrances. Specifically, patchouli. More than 80% of Pogostemon cablin – the minty plant from which patchouli oil is derived – is farmed in […]
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