Theme: Resilience by Design

ICOR’s 2025 monthly webinars are focused on different strategies to increase the resilience of the organization’s operations. This is often called “Operational Resilience”. Back again year! Due to its popularity, participants have the opportunity to earn their Resilience by Design “Badge” by attending a minimum of 10 sessions of the learning series either live or on-demand.

ICOR Webinars are offered live and are available on-demand on both our website and on the ICOR YouTube Channel.

Each webinar is worth 1 continuing education hour. All webinars are scheduled for 12:00-1:00 PM CST / GMT 06:00 unless otherwise noted. Attendees who attend for a minimum of 35 minutes receive a certificate of attendance for 1 Hour / .1 CEU.

Resilience by Design

Determining the context of your resilience strategy

February 26, 2025

Online

The organization’s resilience strategy is determined by where leadership wants to strengthen the organizationIt should be a strategic, purposeful, and transparent approach that anticipates changes to the context in which the organization operatesThis enables the organization to adapt to these changes, identify vulnerabilities, and address them in a timely manner.

Attend this webinar to learn about how to determine the context of your resilience strategyWe will also introduce the dimensions that should be considered as part of your resilience strategy.

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Operating as an Agile Organization

Building agile and flexible systems  

March 19, 2025

Online

Rapidly changing business conditions demand more flexible organizations. More resilient organizations operate in an agile manner that enables successful reactions to the emergence of new competitors, rapid advancements in technology and sudden shifts in overall market conditions.

Attend this webinar to learn how operating as an agile organization in agile teams is a tool for managing all aspects of the organization and increasing its ability to anticipate, adapt, act in a timely manner.

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Increasing the Resilience of your Operations

Implementing a Systems’ Approach to Managing Risk

April 23, 2025

Online

Now more than ever, organizations need to review how they manage risk – how they anticipate and respond to threats and opportunities – and how to build systems that are prepared for both current and future (emerging) risks.

Attend this webinar to learn about implementing a systems’ approach to managing risk and how to coordinate and align those systems to ensure they are robust, diverse, and resourceful.

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Understanding the Global Impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

(DORA)

May 21, 2025

Online

While the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act targets the financial sector, aiming to strengthen the cyber resilience of financial firms, the law also targets information, communication, and third-party technology services that offer critical services to the financial sector.

In this webinar, you will learn about how organizations can ensure compliance with DORA and potential global implications.

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Increasing the Resilience of your Crisis Management & Communications Capability

June 18, 2025

Online

Understanding your organization’s crisis readiness involves understanding how it manages everyday issues or problems and how it determines thresholds for initiating a more formal response. An organization’s crisis response capability is also impacted by how well it integrates and coordinates the different parts of the organization responsible for responding to an incident.

Attend this webinar and learn how to ensure that your crisis management capability is inclusive, collaborative, and ensures that strategies exist to effectively analyze situations, make difficult decisions, and communicate to all relevant interested parties.

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Increasing the Resilience of your Business Continuity Management System

July 23, 2025

Online

A business continuity management system ensures the capability of the organization to deliver products and services at predefined time-frames and capacity. Its purpose is to prepare for and to provide and maintain controls and capabilities for managing the organization’s overall ability to continue to operate under all conditions.

Attend this webinar and learn about how a BCMS supports the resilience of the organization and how it provides a critical role in operations.

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Building Resilience of ICT Systems & Data Center Operations

August 20, 2025

Online

Traditional risk management is no longer an adequate activity to fully understand threats to critical environments such as data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them. With risks including increased demands to power land, and water, combined with supply chain disruptions, managing risk has become much more difficult.  High-availability is now the expectation.

Attend this webinar and learn more about the new risk environment in data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them.

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Increasing the Resilience of your Supply & Value Chains

September 17, 2025

Online

Over the past 5 years, both the supply chains and value chains have come under significant threats.  With the focus of supply chain on operations and the focus of value chain on business, there is often a silo between the two systems. More resilient organizations ensure that strategies exist to manage supply and value chain risk, continuity, and security.

Attend this webinar to better understand the importance of managing risk and security to your supply chain and value chain and how to ensure the continuity of both.

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Increasing the Resilience of your Security Systems

October 22, 2025

Online

Physical security of your organization’s premises impacts the safety of the people who work there and the organization’s productivity.  The risks to physical security systems need to be considered through the perspectives of the organization’s stakeholders, external environmental conditions, equipment use, storage, maintenance, access and compliance.

Attend this webinar and learn about how to increase the resilience of your facilities by strengthening your security systems.

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Considering the Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Your Operations

November 19, 2025

Online

Geopolitical risk is not new, but is at the forefront of global organizations today now more than ever. The context for managing divergent geopolitical viewpoints needs to be addressed and considered from several perspectives. Organizations need to take both defensive measures to mitigate the impact of geopolitical disruptions and also be proactive to foster resilience.

Attend this webinar to learn more about how to transform geopolitical challenges into opportunities for growth while strengthening resilience.

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Understanding Critical Environments

May 23, 2018

Online

Critical environments are now more critical to the health and viability than ever before. Anyone who works in information technology, data centers, call centers, or has any role in ensuring the 24x7x365 availability of technology systems will benefit from this webinar. Attend this webinar and gain an understanding of how the individual components of a critical environment should work together to ensure continuity of operations.

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Issue Management & Crisis Readiness

April 18, 2018

Online

Attend this webinar and learn how practices such as situational awareness, horizon scanning, and issues management contribute to a more Òcrisis-awareÓ organization and one that is agile and proactive versus reactive.

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Measuring Your Alignment to ISO 22301 Business Continuity Requirements

February 21, 2018

Online

Attend this webinar and learn how to conduct a self-assessment of a Business Continuity Management System and its alignment to ISO 22301 requirements in order to improve BCMS capability, declare conformity to ISO 22301, and to determine readiness for a 3rd party certification audit.

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Building a Resilient Supply Chain

January 24, 2018

Online

Threats to your supply chain and therefore to your organization abound Ð their likelihood and consequences heightened by long, global supply chains, ever-shrinking product cycles, and volatile and unpredictable market cycles. Supply chains are increasingly at risk of disruption. It is important for organizations to implement a process for supply chain continuity, manage supply chain risk, and ensure supply chain security. Attend this webinar and learn how to build a more resilient supply chain.

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Reputation Management

December 12, 2018

Online

An organization in crisis faces many grave threats. Employees can be in physical danger, buildings can fall, and customers can be lost. But the most serious threat is and always will be the threat to the organizationÕs most important asset Ð its reputation. Attend this webinar and learn from companies that have done it well and from those who havenÕt on how to protect the organization from reputational threats.

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Developing a Resilient Workforce

November 28, 2018

Online

No one can argue todayÕs workplace environment is becoming more turbulent. In the midst of this hectic arena, employees and management alike are looking for answers to help them improve performance. A workforce that has a diversity of skills, leadership, knowledge and experience is a contributing factor to enhancing the resilience of an organization. People who are properly selected, motivated, equipped and led will overcome almost any obstacle or disruption. To harness peopleÕs incredible ability to lead and respond during changing circumstances requires a systematic strategy for people selection and people support. This webinar explores the skills and competencies necessary in a workforce that can ensure effective delivery of organizational objectives in a changing world.

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Understanding and Protecting Against Security Breaches

October 25, 2018

Online

Understanding the sources of security breaches, how attackers gather information, and the phases of a data breach is the first step to protecting against security breaches. This webinar explores how to develop and enforce strong information security policies and how to protect the IT infrastructure and information.

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Backing up & Recovering Data

September 26, 2018

Online

Every organization should have a documented and high-performing system for backing up data that can be easily recovered when and where it is needed. Attend this webinar and learn about how to write a data protection plan, understand backup architectures and storage types, methods for different types of backups, and how replication can support a highly available data protection and recovery system.

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Building an Incident Response Capability

August 22, 2018

Online

Understanding your organizationÕs incident readiness involves understanding how it manages everyday ÒissuesÓ and how it determines thresholds for initiating a more formal response. An organizationÕs incident response capability is also impacted by how well it integrates and coordinates the different parts of the organization responsible for responding to an incident. Attend this webinar and about the core components of crisis or incident readiness.

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Increasing Resilience and Compliance with ISO Standards

November 28, 2017

Online

This webinar will provide an overview of how ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 can be used to enhance organizational resilience programs, processes, and activities in a standardized, transparent, and sustainable manner. Attend this webinar and learn how implementing ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 can help you demonstrate compliance to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation and the New York State, Department of Financial Services Cyber Security Requirements.

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Preserving, Protecting, and Recovering Data

October 25, 2017

Online

For an organization to be more resilient it must understand the nature of the information it is storing and the value the information has to the organization in order to make the right choices about where and how to store their data. Attend this webinar and learn how to address IT risk, understand the elements of ICT continuity, and manage your overall technology recovery.

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Developing Leaders to Lead Resilient Organizations

September 27, 2017

Online

Resilience begins with an organizationÕs leadership setting the priorities, allocating the resources and making the commitments to establish organizational resilience throughout the organization. Managing an incident is a difficult task and leaders must change the way they lead in order to be more aware of potential crises. This webinar explores leadership qualities that have been shown to support the development of a more resilient organization and discusses those leadership qualities necessary to manage an organization, lead during changing times, and create an environment that is both adaptive and agile.

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