Global risk factors today for an industrial enterprise, whether health pandemics or cyberattacks, are placing an urgent emphasis on the need for flexible control and management over operational assets. Business continuity remains a strategic priority, as new worldwide complexities and uncertainties arise. A March 2020 Forrester report notes that provisioning employees with remote access technologies is a key continuity strategy at 88 percent of organizations surveyed (1), while Gartner recommends to “accelerate the development of a technology infrastructure that can support alternative types of working.”(2) In the same timeframe, the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory to critical infrastructure companies to prepare for remote work scenarios in light of the Covid-19 health pandemic (3).
DELIVERING BUSINESS CONTINUITY AMIDST HEALTH PANDEMICS
