Security & Business Resilience

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being heralded as a way to solve a wide range of problems in different industries and applications, such as reducing street traffic, improving online shopping, making life easier with voice-activated digital assistants, and more.

Operational resilience refers to a business’s ability to prevent, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions. Without operational risk management, operational disruption to a business can impact financial stability, threaten the business’s overall viability, and/or harm consumers and other businesses. Yet challenges to ensuring resilience and continuity abound, and they grow more complex each year. But here is the good news: Solutions exist.

G4S announced the launch of the Risk Operations Center (ROC) based out of its Jupiter, Fla., Americas headquarters with a redundant facility in Chelmsford, Mass.

It is hard to believe that Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2019 is almost here. This year, it is anticipated that conversations will take a deeper dive into more intelligent security strategies and what their role is in the development of smarter infrastructures. Advanced security applications and data-enabled insights are a few main topics that will be top of mind for participants and attendees at GSX 2019.

Outsourcing by companies has been an area of growth for many years, and the trend does not seem to be slowing down. For example, Gartner is forecasting a 17 percent growth in public cloud use worldwide in 2019. Leading the way is infrastructure-as-a-service or (IaaS) with an expected 27 percent growth alone.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its mid-season outlook that conditions have changed to allow for "above-normal" hurricane activity this year.

As CSO, Steve Baker is reponsible for the strategic plans and operations of the Global Security and Investigatives function. How does he guide direction and ensure alignment with the business functions of a successful enterprise?

Two consistent and related themes in enterprise technology have emerged in recent years, both involving rapid and dramatic change. One is the rise of the digital enterprise across sectors and internationally. The second is the need for IT to react quickly and aggressively develop innovations to meet the enterprise’s digital aspirations.