Organizations with a global reach often require employees to travel near and far. Now more than ever, businesses have a duty of care to ensure the safety, well-being, and security of their workforce, no matter the destination. To ensure traveling employees are kept safe, organizations must prepare their people for potential risks and keep them informed throughout their journey, providing further assistance and care if needed.

For years, Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) applications have helped organizations streamline and improve their IT processes for better business results. But today, with rising disruptions and BCG research noting that 70% of digital transformations fail, these incidence response applications alone are no longer enough to maintain digital service uptime and ensure customer satisfaction.

In Information Technology terms, a disaster is any kind of event that disrupts the network, puts data at risk, or causes normal operations to slow down or stop. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is created to address the risks and possibilities of these types of events and minimize the damage they cause. Common disasters that are included in a DRP include.

There has been a tremendous amount of change around public safety over the last few years, especially regarding 911. Keeping up with Next-Generation 911 technology (NG911) and the wealth of information can certainly be overwhelming. To make matters worse, emergency callers are more mobile than ever before.

Almost 70 percent of leaders have dealt with a corporate crisis in the last five years, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found in its 2019 Global Crisis Survey. And, according to management consultancy McKinsey, between 2010 and 2017, the name of a Forbes-recognized top 100 company appeared in headlines together with the word “crisis” 80 percent more often than in the previous decade — and those are just the organizations that made the news.

Severe weather puts millions in harm’s way each year. By 2050, severe weather and climate-related events could displace 1.2 billion people across the globe, putting communities and the businesses they support at risk. As severe weather continues to threaten more people and cause greater harm, building resilience against natural hazards and climate threats is paramount: the time for governments and enterprises to act is now.

Higher education is a hot spot for physical and digital threats. However, digital threats have pushed the world of higher education to a breaking point, with ransomware becoming one of the most devastating threats to higher education in recent years.

A rise in both physical and digital security threats is placing greater pressure on CISOs and other security professionals to prepare for and mitigate evolving security threats of all kinds. To protect organizations and their people, security teams need to be able to visualize threats, respond quickly and communicate effectively.