How is Enterprise Resilience Certified?

The Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification is awarded based on the Enterprise Resilience Standards Framework methodology. The Enterprise Resilience Standards Framework is the product of 20+ years of experience helping customers keep their people safe and businesses running.

The certification process assesses how well and completely organizations adhere to specific standards related to Business Operations, People Resilience, Digital Operations, Smart Security and Public Safety.

According to a Gartner Report, "Organizational resilience remains a strategic imperative, growing in importance as businesses face threats from pandemics, cybercrime, severe weather, climate change, civil and political instabilities."

Gartner, "Predicts 2021: Organizational Resilience," by Roberta Witty, Katell Thielemann, Ron Blair, David Gregory. 4 Jan 2021.

What Does it Mean to Get Certified?

The framework methodology signals the automation and acceleration of operational response to critical events to keep people safe and businesses running. The Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification seal signals to customers, employees, partners, and investors validation of a trusted organization status for Best in Enterprise Resilience.

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Benefits of Certification

Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification identifies organizations that meet and exceed the Enterprise Resilience Standards Framework. Through the certification process, organizations:

Benchmark performance against industry peers, including areas of strength and opportunities for improvement
Improve planning, budgeting and resource allocation
Drive strong return on investment through targeted initiatives
Demonstrate a commitment to enterprise resilience and duty of care, instilling trust among employees, partners, customers, and investors
Recruit and retain top talent
Formalize recognition at the organizational level for global leadership in enterprise resilience
Reward individual achievement via employee certifications on professional profiles

Benefits of critical event management

Success in critical event management unlocks enterprise resilience. The Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification program acknowledges the best in breed. A strong critical event management programme helps organizations:

Make better strategic data-driven decisions
Enable and protect revenue streams
Increase profitability through expense efficiencies
Drive operational improvements
Ensure consistent practices are applied globally
Fulfill duty of care
Automate intelligently
Bolster brand & reputation
Help keep people safe and operations running, faster™

Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification Seal

What the Mark Covers

A certification of this kind signals to stakeholders that an organisation has had its resilience assessed against a defined framework rather than self-declared. A mark is normally scoped to specific domains rather than awarded wholesale, and it carries the dates and the entity it applies to. Schemes in this field typically assess five:

More than a Job: It’s Our Mission

Assessment panels are built from practitioners across safety, business continuity, digital operations, security and supply chain. Who sits on the panel — and what they have actually run — matters as much as the framework being applied.

How Assessment Works

Get Noticed for Demonstrated Resilience

Get an organizational snapshot, providing a current view of your company’s resilience, including strengths and opportunities for improvement.

“As a global designer, installer and manager of physical security systems…we know the importance of business continuity and disaster preparedness. We look forward to sharing this well-earned accolade with our valued customers and partners.”

Zach Henderson, Director of Managed Services, Northland Controls
“The certification confirms our commitment to keep our employees safe and to ensure we have an effective program in place.”

Brad Earman, Senior Manager of Security and Intelligence Operations Center at Discover.
“We strive to do the best and having a third party look at it and evaluate our programs are always great, so we appreciate the feedback.”

Global Crisis Manager, Major Media Company
“This is helpful as we look towards the future and set our roadmap for what we want the crisis management process to look like.”

Crisis Management Leader, Financial Services Company
“The assessment gives us a really good sense of where we stand and more importantly a well-thought path moving forward.”

Director of Response and Intelligence, Major Media Company
“It is great to have our perspective validated, and to see the benchmark analysis so we know where we stand in relation to other organizations.”

Global Head of Security, Pharmaceutical Company
“The assessment was a good way to take inventory of where things were compared with where they are today. Laying all of that out and speaking through it was a good experience to go through.”

Security Technology Manager, Leading Consulting Firm
“The benchmark analysis says a lot…and it helps us keep pushing toward our vision.”

Chief Security Officer, Fortune 500 Company
“Critical event management has improved our efficiency by leaps and bounds. It’s transformed how we operate.”

Global Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company

Here’s How to Get Certified

Qualifying organizations are eligible for certification by an accredited assessment team. Please click the button below and complete the form, apply and agree to the terms and conditions. A member of our team will follow up with you to discuss next steps toward certification.

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Best in Enterprise Resilience Certified Customers Include:

Our list of Best in Enterprise Resilience Certified companies continues to grow.

Stay tuned for new exciting updates on the companies that have achieved excellence in driving business continuity and demonstrated readiness to manage critical events throughout their organization.

Where to Start

Step 1:

Get Assessed

The assessment examines preparedness and resilience across 4 competencies:

Data & Analytics
Digital Transformation
Communication & Collaboration
Smart Process Automation

Step 2:

How Certification Works

Receive a certification report providing a view of the company’s current state of resilience, including strengths and opportunities for improvement. Stakeholders can use this report to determine what improvement, if any, to pursue.

Step 3:

Get Recognized

The Best in Enterprise Resilience Certification serves as a way to communicate that your organization values safety and dependability, increasing trust in your organization both for internal stakeholders like employees as well as external customers.

Program Overview

Best in Enterprise Resilience