The board meeting started with a simple question: “Are we ready for the next disruption?”
I gave them an honest answer: “That depends on which disruption we’re talking about.”
Because here’s the reality every CIO knows but doesn’t always say out loud: Readiness isn’t a checkbox. It’s not something you achieve once with a great recovery plan or a perfectly executed disaster recovery test. Readiness is a muscle you build, test, and rebuild constantly as the threat landscape shifts beneath your feet.
That’s why we created the Readiverse. Not another content library. Not another vendor resource hub. It’s a space where CIOs, CISOs, and technology leaders can get the intelligence they need to help them stay ready – whether that means anticipating the next ransomware variant, navigating AI governance challenges, or simply having a straight answer when the board asks, “Are we protected?”
Two Kinds of Readiness
In my role, I need two things that rarely live in the same place:
Strategic insight for the boardroom: Intelligence briefs that analyze emerging threats through a business impact lens. Quick-hit perspectives from executives who’ve been in your chair – 60-second Bold Takes on what matters now. Peer conversations with other CIOs who’ve navigated market disruptions and transformation challenges.
Practical guidance for implementation: Readiness assessments to benchmark your maturity. Regulatory compliance guides that help map requirements to capabilities. Recovery workshops and hands-on experience that sharpen your team’s ability to respond when it matters most.
The Readiverse brings both together. Because you can’t lead from the boardroom without understanding implementation realities. And you can’t build resilient systems without connecting them to business outcomes.
Ready. Or Not.
That’s the choice we face every day as technology leaders. We can be ready – with tested plans, trained teams, and intelligent defenses. Or we can be caught off-guard when disruption arrives.
That’s why we’re launching our new, six-part podcast series, Ready. Or Not., on the Readiverse. Our host, comedian Nathan Macintosh, and his guests cut through the AI hype and cybersecurity complexity with humor and straight talk. Check out our first episode – AI: Agents of Good, Meet Agents of Evil – with guest Reid Blackman, founder and CEO of AI risk consultancy Virtue.
Beyond the Noise
The Readiverse exists to give you the intelligence, perspective, and practical guidance you need to build resilience that works – not just resilience that sounds good in a slide deck.
Because the board will keep asking if we’re ready. And we owe them – and ourselves – an honest, confident answer. Explore the Readiverse, and we’ll stay ready together.
Ha Hoang is Chief Information Officer at Commvault.
