Quote: “Whether the cybercrime is holding data at ransom prior to release of encryption keys, or laying in wait for a time to execute a worm or virus, one certainty is that these events will [...]
Visit any company today and you are likely to find business and IT managers confronting the same challenges. Call them the “C-4” issues: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction (reduced IT energy consumption, also [...]
Who Can Account for All of Your Company’s Recovery Time Objectives Companies have stringent requirements to uphold regarding disaster recovery and business continuity. Upholding these standards does not guarantee a company will come through a [...]
Among the priorities for efficient storage management is an appropriate protection architecture. We all know how important it is to protect the crown jewels of any business, the data. The question is, do we protect [...]
An NBA All-Star Game helps us appreciate the exceptional performance that is possible when you get the “best-of-the-best” all working together in a seamless and coordinated fashion. Wouldn’t it be great to do the same [...]
The day-to-day life of a Chief Information Security Officer (aka CISO), a Business Continuity Director or a security/disaster recovery professional is definitely one full of excitement, boredom, concern, wonder and even sheer terror! The issues [...]
Business continuity planning efforts are made or broken by the testing program that is implemented to validate strategies, rehearse those who will play a role in recovery, and provide essential input to change management [...]
For the past 18 to 24 months, a new focused conversation has emerged among CIO's and IT Directors regarding the trend of internalizing recovery efforts within their organizations. As organizations look to streamline operations, implement [...]
This article describes why addressing the data-protection problem is critically important and lays out general characteristics for a comprehensive solution. Data protection is the preparation for and recovery from data emergencies. Backup and replication technologies [...]
Pick up any book on strategic business process development and, within the first few chapters, you will find a discussion on the importance of policy. Policies are the first line of defense against risk from [...]
Many enlightened enterprises are aligning the once disparate functions of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Information Security into a single functional unit focused on IT Risk Management. Some organizations have gone even further and added [...]
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Blowing In the Wind On October 1, 2005, confidential health records originating from the Toronto Clinic dating back to 1992 were purposefully blown and scattered about the streets of Toronto, Ontario. [...]