Vertex11

A publicly owned company needed to meet a customer requirement. The ask was to demonstrate the ability to recover and restore its services in order to meet service level agreements for recovery time and recovery point objectives. They initially hired a larger firm to help them meet these requirements, however that firm failed to adequately deliver during their six-month partnership. This resulted in an even shorter timeline and a smaller budget for this company to demonstrate its continuity capabilities to their customer.

Today, many organizations still look at security through an antiquated lens when determining solutions for protecting valuable assets. This perspective is a big reason we constantly see breaches in the headlines. A paradigm shift needs to occur in organizations from the top down to achieve maximum protection and security for assets like data.

Vertex11 was recently invited to speak to over sixty leaders of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices across the United States. At the conference we conducted a survey, which actually reinforced what we already knew. Before we dive into some of the results, it is important to mention this was a bit of an experiment on our part. An ERM survey was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in 2004, then again in 2008