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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." It is by no means an isolated illustration.

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What Does Good Look Like in the Era of Operational Resilience?

Fusion Risk Management

This approach aids regulators in understanding industry-wide risks and dependencies, a perspective acutely missed during the 2008 financial crisis. Establishing a Framework for Critical Services Organizations should develop objective frameworks to determine core business services.

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A Solution for the Retail Theft Crisis

Security Industry Association

Commercial use of facial recognition is legal in all 50 states, though the 2008 Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act severely restricts applications in that state. As of July 2024, 20 U.S.

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State Legislative Update: 2024 Legislation Impacting the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Biometric Technology Colorado was the only state to enact a new biometric data privacy measure in 2024, while Illinois enacted a key reform to its Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA) of 2008. Illinois Enacted: SB-2979 marks the first and only reform to BIPA since it was enacted in 2008. See SIA’s analysis for more information.

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De-Dollarization Readiness: Why Governance is Your Best Defense

LogisManager

Organizations that continue to treat de-dollarization as a niche financial issue risk being blindsided by an abrupt shift that could eclipse the shocks of 2008 and the COVID-era supply chain crises. It touches everything from procurement and treasury operations to supply chains and decision-making processes.

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What is the Climate Finance Vulnerability Index (CliF-VI)?

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), established in 2008, provide concessional financing for large-scale infrastructure projects in partnership with multilateral development banks. The Green Climate Fund (GCF), established in 2010, holds the largest adaptation portfolio and supports broad climate-resilient development.

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Hyper-V: Cluster Shared Volumes, SQL Server, and FlashArray Snapshots

Pure Storage

While CSVs were around in Windows Server 2008 R2, they only really became useful and relevant in their second iteration, released with Windows Server 2012. This blog has a fantastic deep dive into the CSV stack. If youre familiar with VMware, then I would say that a CSV is somewhat analogous to a VMFS datastore.