GPRC for Operational Resilience: Navigating NIS2 and EU CER: The Expanding Mission of Resilience
Shields up! Red alert!
On the bridge of the Enterprise, when an unknown anomaly threatens the ship, the crew does not panic — they orchestrate. Helm adjusts course, engineering reroutes power, science runs scans, and command makes decisions with the best available intelligence. Survival depends on coordination.
This spirit of orchestration is exactly what organizations must embrace when approaching operational resilience in today’s environment of relentless disruption. It is also why GPRC — governance, performance, risk, and compliance — provides the essential framework for resilience. GPRC ensures that governance defines clear objectives, performance measures continuity, risk anticipates uncertainty, and compliance assures alignment to obligations. Together, these elements enable resilience to be embedded in the very fabric of the enterprise.
The regulatory landscape has raised the stakes. The EU NIS2 Directive and the EU Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive expand the mission of resilience far beyond financial services. While DORA concentrated on ICT and financial firms, NIS2 and CER extend the focus to critical infrastructure, digital service providers, and essential services across Europe.
The demand is simple yet profound: organizations must show that their operations — and by extension, the societies that depend on them — can withstand disruption from cyberattacks, outages, supply chain failures, and geopolitical shocks . . .
[The rest of this blog can be read on the Corporater blog, where GRC 20/20’s Michael Rasmussen is a Guest Blogger]