Business Resilience Council
A Member-Driven, Analyst-Supported, Multi-Sector Community
The Business Resilience Council (BRC) is a member-driven, analyst-supported, multi-sector community for sharing significant incidents, threats and vulnerabilities impacting businesses with regional, national and international footprints that must manage crises and navigate response scenarios in order to maintain operations.
The BRC provides members with business continuity alerts, reports, and best practices. BRC intelligence covers:
systemic or destructive cybersecurity risks
significant third-party security vulnerabilities
natural disaster warning and response
operational resilience information
geopolitical risk, civil unrest and terrorism
threats to supply chains
pandemic updates
The BRC fosters a broad, holistic community. Resilience professionals from all sectors are invited to join.
BRC Benefits
The BRC Team Provides Warning and Guidance
The BRC team and leadership are closely familiar with disaster response and business continuity planning, with decades of collective experience and training from working in critical infrastructure and in government. The team is made of resilience specialists, cyber, physical and geopolitical analysts.
Access
Access support from resilience specialists and physical, geopolitical and cybersecurity analysts with decades of collective business continuity experience.
Leverage
Leverage crowd-sourced expertise of fellow members and community partners
Develop
Develop and mature continuity plans with BRC guidance and the latest intelligence
Track
Track significant geopolitical tensions or threat actor TTPs to prepare the business for future opportunities and protect current assets
Trigger
Trigger response efforts due to impending threats to business operations
Strengthen
Strengthen relationships with peers and government partner for increased support and knowledge
The BRC tracks significant vulnerabilities and breaches, and provides the means to connect with product and security teams of vendors that support your critical business services. When a threat is imminent, or an incident occurs, these connections become vital to your cybersecurity and continuity teams for situational awareness and rapid response. The BRC also works with breached vendors to facilitate dialogue, for mutual benefit.
Third-Party Security Connection
Products and Services
Weekly Threat and Resilience Report
Situation Reports for Sustained Emergencies
Quantified Threat Calculation
Cross-Sector Emergency Operations Dashboard
Secure Sharing Portal
Scheduled All-Sector, All-Source Threat Calls
Sector Specific Resilience Discussions
Regulatory Guidance Meetings and Reports
Multi-Sector and Sector-Specific Exercises
Briefing and Report Examples
Civil Unrest
Extremism and activism against critical infrastructure and essential business
Geopolitics
Examining international policies and law, economic sanctions, military action, sponsorship of proxies and rhetoric, to illuminate potential impacts on supply chains and interdependencies
Terrorism
Threats, incidents, trends, growth and impacts on business, supply chains, economies and government policy as well as mitigating strategies
COVID-19
Variant spread, travel restriction and guidance, and best practices, business impact analysis and return to normal operations
Vulnerabilities
Guidance on major vendor incidents and subsequent impacts to customers, as well as direct engagement with vendors to gain detailed insight and obtain ideal mitigation strategies
Natural Disasters
Impacts and mitigating strategies for hurricanes, drought, wildfire etc.
Emerging Threat
Spotlights on new actors and tools targeting critical infrastructure
Insider Threat
Studies of recent cases, identifying warning signs, trends and best practices
The Operational Resilience Framework provides rules and implementation aids that support a company’s recovery of immutable data, while also – and uniquely– allowing it to minimize service disruptions in the face of destructive attacks and events. Learn more at https://www.grf.org/orf