Business Continuity vs. Operational Resilience: Why you need both (and how to get them)

The text discusses the increasing need for both business continuity and operational resilience in today's unpredictable business environment, characterized by extreme weather, geopolitical uncertainties, and economic fluctuations. It clarifies the distinction between business continuity, which involves planning to recover from disasters, and operational resilience, which entails proactively building systems to prevent disruptions in the first place. The text highlights how these concepts are symbiotic, using examples like DDoS attacks and cloud outages to illustrate their application in real-world scenarios. It also notes the growing regulatory focus on operational resilience, particularly in critical sectors such as financial services, exemplified by the European Union's proposed Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The text emphasizes the importance of cloud-agnostic architectures for ensuring operational resilience and suggests that businesses can simplify their continuity planning by utilizing highly available managed services designed to handle disruptions seamlessly.

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