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Apply best practices to plan for, respond to, and manage critical events and exercises. Built on ISO standards, you can respond faster with better collaboration using plans and playbooks, smart workflows, and real-time dashboards and insights, to ensure better incident response, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.

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All the tools needed to automate your safety management system in one easy-to-use platform, following ISO standards. Increase efficiency with powerful automation capabilities and provide real time insights to all levels of your business. Configurable notifications, workflows, analytics, and mapping empower your safety personnel to make better decisions wherever they are.

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Maintain a comprehensive view of the wellbeing of your workers, their needs, and the wellbeing initiatives conducted in your organization. Through various assessments, checks, analytics, and resources you can easily manage both the physical and mental wellbeing of personnel across various locations and programs.

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A suite of tools to collect risk data from across your organziation from a range of stakeholders, in real time, and based on ISO standards. Fully customisable, with everything from a simple pre-task assessment though to an organisational risk register, we make it easy to capture risk data and provide the analytics to derive rich insights, to keep your organisation safe and compliant.

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Track all your assets from your vehicle fleet, fixed or mobile plant and equipment though to your critical infrastructure using our range of tools. Plan maintenance ahead of time and by collecting lead indicator data from checklists and assessments on any mobile device, then enable users to update the status of your assets to track utilisation, share documentation and report issues.

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Save time and money by enabling contractors to self-register and progress through a customizable workflow, to check documentation before becoming an approved contractor. Contractors can then be automatically followed up using workflows and notifications to keep their organziation compliant.

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Streamline visitor sign-in using a QR code on a form tailored for your organisation. Visitors can complete inductions, answer questions and acknowledge content then have notifications triggered to their host based on their responses. Once on site, manage visitor cards, broadcast notifications and understand visitor trends to optimise your processes.

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All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.

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Proactively manage all aspects of physical security operations from anywhere, on any device. Based on ISO standards, streamline your operations using workflow automations to guide information capture, enrichment, follow up tasks, and notifications. Validate threats and risks to drive better investment of your resources.

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Manage cyber threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions, and drive continual improvement review cycles.

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Streamline visitor sign-in using a QR code on a form tailored for your organisation. Visitors can complete inductions, answer questions and acknowledge content then have notifications triggered to their host based on their responses. Once on site, manage visitor cards, broadcast notifications and understand visitor trends to optimise your processes.

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Consolidate the threat and risk picture across all your assets, easily demonstrate compliance with security obligations, and gain an ‘all threats’ perspective encompassing physical, cyber, personnel and supply chain. Address and manage cyber threats without having to implement costly new ICT systems and drive continuous improvement and review cycles.

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All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.

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Manage cyber, emergency and security threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions and drive continual improvement review cycles.

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Track all your assets from your vehicle fleet, fixed or mobile plant and equipment though to your critical infrastructure using our range of tools. Plan maintenance ahead of time and by collecting lead indicator data from checklists and assessments on any mobile device, then enable users to update the status of your assets to track utilization, share documentation and report issues.

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Save time and money by enabling contractors to self-register and progress through a customizable workflow, to check documentation before becoming an approved contractor. Contractors can then be automatically followed up using workflows and notifications to keep their organziation compliant.

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Follow ISO standard approaches to determine disruption impacts and develop plans & recovery strategies to address risks. Track gaps, dependencies and tests, capture exercises, and manage insurance details. Scale up to any incident and back down to business as usual as quickly as possible and drive continuous improvement.

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Apply best practices to plan for, respond to, and manage critical events and exercises. Built on ISO standards, you can respond faster with better collaboration using plans and playbooks, smart workflows, and real-time dashboards and insights, to ensure better incident response, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Manage cyber, emergency and security threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions and drive continual improvement review cycles.

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Ensure preparedness across your organisation. Conduct business impact assessments and quickly identify essential functions. Assess hazard and threat risks. Identify technology, assets, facilities, and critical personnel. Gather and assemble essential information and documents. Develop, test and maintain your COOP plans. From readiness and preparedness to reconstitution, manage all four phases of the Continuity of Operations Plan to minimize business loss and disruption.

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What are the differences between Business Continuity and Operational Resilience?

Looking to dive deeper on the topic of resilience? Check out our overview of organizational resilience, and our overview of operational resilience.

A troubling stat emerged in the analysis of operational resilience programs. According to the BCI Resilience Report, organizations came to consider operational resilience as “business continuity done well.” Although there are overlaps, the two functions aren’t the same thing. What are the key differences?

Defining operational resilience and business continuity

Well, Gartner defines operational resilience as initiatives that expand business continuity management programs to focus on the impacts, connected risk appetite, and tolerance levels for disruption of product or service delivery to internal and external stakeholders, e.g., employees, customers, citizens, and partners.

What are those initiatives, specifically? Well, again according to Gartner, the initiatives coordinate the management of risk assessments, risk monitoring, and execution of controls that impact workforce, processes, facilities, technology, and third parties across the following risk domains used in the business delivery and value realization process:

  • Security (cyber and physical)
  • Safety
  • Privacy
  • Continuity of operations
  • Reliability

On the other hand, business continuity focuses on getting processes back up and running in an agreed timescale, with the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) focusing on the time it takes to get a process back up and running following a disruption.

Business continuity practitioners, for their part, are responsible for the management of prioritized activities, i.e., those activities that make critical products and services happen. These activities are discovered during the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process. 

The main differences between operational resilience and business continuity

Where do the key differences lie?

Operational resilience deals with the management of critical products and services 

Critical, here, characterizes products or services provided by an organization, or another organization on behalf of the organization to one or more clients. These services, if disrupted, would cause intolerable harm to customers or pose risk to the soundness, stability, or resilience of the organization or the market in which it operates.

Operational resilience focuses on getting a process up and running before that process causes intolerable harm

That harm can be to the business, its customers, or the market. An impact tolerance goes a step further with a service-based objective focus on preventing harm to customers and risk to the market in which they operate.


Why the differences between operational resilience and business continuity are important to know

So, why does it matter?

Regulatory compliance is one big reason. Companies are increasingly likely to have to comply with both operational resilience and business continuity regulations. Understanding the difference between the two will help organizations avoid regulatory sanction from non-compliance.

For instance, in the financial services space, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released draft Prudential Standard CPS 230, focusing on operational risk management. In the EU, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) seeks to align the approach to managing ICT and cyber risk in the financial sector across all EU member states. And the Federal Reserve released a joint regulatory paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen Operational Resilience.

These policies, regulations, and proposals all seek to uplevel the operational resilience of individual firms, so that no firm can pose a systemic risk to the wider business sector.

This is different than business continuity regulations, mandating the development and updating of a business continuity plan – to cite one oft-seen regulation.

Of course, regulatory compliance isn’t the only reason to understand the differences between operational resilience and business continuity. What are the others? Download our Guide to the Differences Between Operational Resilience and Business Continuity to find out.

Operational Resilience vs. Business Continuity - What's the Difference?