Business Resiliency, Risk & Compliance in the Banking & Finance Sector

IT operations have come under increasing pressure in recent years to maintain services that support business continuity when confronted with numerous internal and external risks and disruptions, such as:

• Business-Driven Risk: Lack of governance, failure to meet regulatory or industry standards, mergers and acquisitions, lack of business continuity plan.
• Data-Driven Risk: Data loss, systems availability, data corruption, disk failure, virus, worms.
• Event-Driven Risk: Natural disasters, fire, pandemics, power failure, overwhelmingly positive response to demand generation tactics.

Some risks could take businesses offline for days, but in today’s competitive environment, even four hours of downtime could be fatal. Business resilience is the latest stage in the evolution of business continuity. It encompasses not only the continuity of business operations but also regulatory compliance, high-availability security and data protection, and integrated risk management. This calls for solutions that can help support an integrated resilience strategy so as to minimize downtime, maximize resilience, and enable users to adapt to the changing needs of their businesses.

With this in mind, a successful business resilience solution must be a multifaceted tool that is able to prevent, protect, manage, and recover. It must first be able to assess, design, and plan for a resilient business infrastructure, and be capable of remotely storing, protecting, and recovering vital business information. It must also help provide a fault-tolerant, failure-resistant infrastructure that has a near-zero recovery time, and finally, it must be capable of recovering business and technology following a disruptive event.

Hosted by IBM in collaboration with IDC, this Business Resiliency and Risk Management seminar will help you explore the latest available offerings on the market and discover how to adequately align IT with business priorities and successfully respond to opportunities, threats, and regulatory compliance events.