Across the business landscape, 2023 has been called the “year of efficiency.” Organizations have had to deliver more growth and innovation, but with tighter budgets and headcount than in prior years. CIOs have needed to build strategies to mitigate the risk of operational failure and protect their brand’s customer experience.

Operational resilience is an increasing area of focus and scrutiny for regulators of the banking and financial services industry. In the European Union, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) looms on the near horizon - with equivalent regulatory frameworks slowly but surely rolling out across the globe.

In the modern day IT landscape, service reliability is of the utmost importance. Status pages serve as crucial interfaces, communicating any interruptions or issues to stakeholders. While several options are available, two notable status page providers stand out: StatusCast and Status.Io. Here we take a dive into the various aspects of status pages and incident management for each status page service.

Companies implement an Incident Response process to promptly resolve critical issues. Setting up escalation policies to notify engineers is a key step in this process. With traditional escalation policies, alert notifications still get missed which results in higher response times and failure to meet SLAs. So, how can one ensure incident notifications are never missed?

October might be a spooky month, but we’re doing our best to make incidents less scary. We released a number of updates this month that focus on two main areas: Let’s jump in.

System outages: they are an inevitable problem that every single IT team will encounter at some point. Whether they come about due to technical issues, act-of-god natural disasters, or simply random human error, system outages happen to the best of us. Though the cause of system outages is not always in your control, you can control your team’s processes for response and resolution.