As organizations re-evaluate the state of their resilience, many are quickly discovering a serious blind spot when it comes to their third-party partners. Tom Holloway, Principal Consultant, Business Resilience at Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) joins IT Availability Now to discuss the importance of identifying third-party risk and how failing to do so can put your business in serious jeopardy. 

Learn:

• Steps to limit third-party risk
• Specific questions to ask about third-party suppliers’ business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities
• The biggest missteps companies make when evaluating third-parties

Oliver Lomer is a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Sungard AS, where he illustrates business challenges and how technology can solve them through engaging content. Oliver has six years’ experience in marketing, commercial and sales enablement roles in global technology organizations.

Tom Holloway is a Principal Business Resilience Consultant at Sungard AS, specializing in helping board-level executives improve and develop their crisis management capabilities through leadership and communication. Tom works with companies to create strategies and frameworks for organizational and operational resilience, as well as full lifecycle resilience and business continuity implementation. He consults across a broad range of sectors, including media and broadcasting, market research, financial services and insurance.