Enterprise Resilience
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An Introduction to Enterprise Resilience • What Is Resilience? • Why Be Resilient?
Who Needs to be Resilient?
Although all organizations and enterprise functions benefit from being resilient, critical mission processes and infrastructure assets must be prioritized first. Once critical enterprise functions are identified, the challenge is to design a balanced resilient solution tailored specifically to mission needs and compliance requirements.
Critical Infrastructure Industries
Private and public assets provide livelihoods and enhance a nation's ability to compete. From financial services to healthcare to energy and power generation, private industry is often responsible for critical assets and systems that - if attacked - put corporate and national viability at risk. Defending those assets is a central focus of the Enterprise Resilience Management Solution™ (ERMS™). By automating industry-specific security rules and best practices, Enterra Solutions makes it possible for organizations to protect critical infrastructure - through sensing, interpreting, and effectively responding to attacks.
Enterprise Resilience Management can also provide an automated compliance solution, enabling organizations to respond successfully to compliance demands. ERM is a primary line of security defense for private companies that meet public needs - and an essential support function for their most important business processes.
National Security Organizations
ERMS™ provides for the automation of logic rules that enable more informed and structured decision-making and information sharing. These rule sets can also form more agile operational processes, such as those required for:
- the military's Network Centric Operations,
- information interchange among intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, and
- enforcement protocols at both security-focused and regulatory oversight agencies.
Enterra Solutions is leading the development of resilient rule protocols that will govern the operation of the next-generation Global Information Grid. Resilience is a public good. Enterprise Resilience Management™ provides for the sustainable success of the most critical public agency mandates.
Civilian Agencies
Federal civilian agencies, such as DOE, DOT, NASA, NOAA, and USDA, use critical infrastructure similar to that found within the private-sector in terms of complexity, exposure to risk, need for streamlined processes, and improved organizational responsiveness. An ERM™ framework meets their needs for a superior performance platform. Enterra has provided a comprehensive threat, risk and vulnerability assessment for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and continues to develop resilient solutions for civilian agencies that must meet similar challenges in order to fulfill their missions.
Today, all government agencies provide and depend on federated services. They have partnerships with industry, other agencies and jurisdictions, and foreign governments. Compliance issues are significantly more difficult and costly to resolve within a federated environment and, thus, it is the ideal situation in which to apply an Enterprise Resilience Management Solution™.
Others
Companies faced with complex, fluid regulatory requirements – today, many companies are struggling to incorporate evolving regulatory requirements into operational systems – and challenged to monitor adherence to these requirements in core business tasks. For example:
- High technology companies who are faced with evolving rules and requirements governing the issuance of, and accounting for, stock options, and who seek to incorporate best practices into existing human resource management processes;
- Consumer packaged goods and other manufacturing companies who sell products through major retailer channels, and who face multiple sets of fulfillment requirements as contained within contract compliance procedures unique to each retailer;
- Other companies within manufacturing, telecommunications, and diversified services industries can also benefit from ERM to more effectively manage the incorporation of evolving and complex rules and regulations into their core operational activities, thus producing greater responsiveness to rapidly changing business conditions.
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