How to Balance Disaster Recovery, Backup Systems, and Security
Information Week
APRIL 22, 2024
Dale Zabriskie, field CISO with Cohesity, and Kim Larsen, CISO with Keepit, discuss ways disaster recovery can work more closely with security.
Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?
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SIRIS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 10, 2023
SIRIS is fundamentally different than traditional backup and recovery solutions. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, managed service providers (MSPs) can offer their clients an all-in-one solution that incorporates local backup and recovery with a secure, cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud.
Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 18, 2022
They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery : spf13.com
SPF13
JANUARY 11, 2012
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery. One of the most common concerns people have is how to ensure that their application is safe, secure and available in the event of an emergency. A backup consists of a dump of the data ideally stored in a remote secure location. s important to keep (offsite) backups.
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: The full image backup tool to meet today’s demanding needs
Tech Republic
JULY 20, 2022
Jack Wallen tests the Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office app, a disaster recovery tool anyone can use to create a full disk clone of crucial systems with ease. The post Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: The full image backup tool to meet today’s demanding needs appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Galido
JULY 8, 2016
Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan in place? Here is a Disaster Recovery Plan Template on what you need to check for: Disaster Recovery Plan Template. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Disaster Recovery Plan Template appeared first on Information Technology Blog.
What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?
Galido
JUNE 13, 2019
Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. It always makes a lot of sense to be prepared for disasters. Understanding Disaster Recovery.
Cyberattacks rank as the biggest data protection concern facing SMBs
Tech Republic Security
MARCH 30, 2020
World Backup Day is March 31, and while cyberattacks are a potential threat to their data, many SMBs say they don't have a data backup or disaster recovery process, according to data protection company Infrascale.
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 15, 2018
Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a cloud-first organisation
5 tips to ensure your cloud databases are compliant, secure and private
Dataconomy
MAY 21, 2024
Data has never been more precious as a resource, making data security more crucial than ever before. Developers, data privacy officers, and IT security teams are under pressure to make sure that cloud databases are not only functional and efficient, but also comply with data privacy legislation and are well protected from malicious actors.
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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
The upshot of all these environments, platforms and data types is that data becomes siloed, which means that each has its own storage and protection policies, and frequently different backup and disaster recovery systems. As a result, efforts get duplicated, creating inefficacy and higher costs.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
SPF13
JANUARY 10, 2012
One of the most common concerns people have is how to ensure that their application is safe, secure and available in the event of an emergency. Often I have found that people are mistakenly believe that they are protected when in fact they often have ignored potential scenarios.
Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar
Storage IO Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud and Achieve global cloud data availability from an Always-On approach with Veeam Cloud Connect webinar.
Four questions for a casino InfoSec director
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
With the CSO50 Conference + Awards coming to the We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort in Fort McDowell, Arizona, October 2-4, we asked Bill Tsoukatos, Information Technology Director at Fort McDowell Enterprises, which owns the resort, to tell us what it’s like to manage IT security at a casino property.
Data Protection Diaries: March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 29, 2014
World backup day is time to test restore and data protection of data and other digital assets including photos images and documents. The post Data Protection Diaries: March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. According to Cigna's security team, the data was intended to be public under federal regulations, aligning with their Transparency in Coverage program.
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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
You’ve invested in state-of-the-art, end-to-end security solutions. You’ve implemented robust security and privacy policies and outlined best practices. Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. As part of your cyber event recovery plan, ensure you’re storing secondary copies of information offsite or off-network.
How to create an effective business continuity plan
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2023
A business continuity plan is not the same as a disaster recovery plan , which focuses on restoring IT infrastructure and operations after a crisis. Because restoring IT is critical for most companies, numerous disaster recovery solutions are available. You can rely on IT to implement those solutions.
Cyber Resilience: Building Immunity in the Face of Evolving Threats
SecureWorld News
JUNE 11, 2023
Understanding cyber resilience Unlike traditional cybersecurity measures, cyber resilience goes further, including prevention, detection, response, and recovery. Organizations become resilient when they establish robust security frameworks that cover incident responses which should include all employees across the organization.
How to calculate TCO for enterprise software
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. Backup: Application data doesn’t simply live in one place. Then there’s backups and disaster recovery.
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What is a Database Administrator and What Do They Do All Day?
Tech Republic Big Data
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
A DBA is a technician skilled in SQL and very large databases who is responsible for managing database software, backup and recovery processes, data security, and storage and capacity planning.
Introducing Forrester’s Now Tech: Data Resilience Solutions Suites, Q2 2022
Forrester IT
JUNE 28, 2022
Data resilience solutions suites (DRSSes) can provide a holistic structure for a business’s data resilience and backup strategy. It can also provide security around data in case of deletion or disaster recovery. Forrester’s […].
Secure data-first modernization? Leverage a trusted ecosystem of partners
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location. Yet there’s no singular, one-size-fits-all framework for secure data storage and management. Upgrading IT and data security to reduce corporate risk was the No.
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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place. It’s important to review your business continuity plans and ensure you’ve got some kind of backup, where possible, to continue with [business as usual],” says Tett. Don’t wait for something to happen.
How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The practice brings together formerly separate disciplines of information security, business continuity, and disaster response (BC/DR) deployed to meet common goals. It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”.
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89 HIPPA and Ransomware in the Healthcare Sector: “Your PHI or your life”
CTOvision
JULY 26, 2016
Maintaining an overall contingency plan that includes disaster recovery, emergency operations, frequent data backups, and test restorations. More details are provided in a PDF sheet on the HHS website: [link].
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Data Center Physical Security Best Practices
Galido
MAY 27, 2016
Below is a best practices checklist recommendation for physical data center security. Prior to selection of a datacenter, IT Specialists and management should ensure, emphasize and secure their need for physical security. Written consent should be granted by proper management prior to and security testing of any kind.
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Database replication for global businesses: Achieving data consistency across distributed environments
Dataconomy
MAY 13, 2024
Disaster recovery: Replicated data serves as a readily available backup, facilitating faster recovery in case of natural disasters or unforeseen technical issues and minimizing data loss and operational disruptions. Data security: The additional touchpoints created by replication introduce new security risks.
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MWC 2024 Replay: Huawei unlocks resilient, ‘non-stop’ banking with four-pronged solutions strategy
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 26, 2024
4 Zeros’ four-pronged approach Huawei Under the banner of “Bank 4 Zeros”, Huawei outlined key markers of resilience in the digital era, mainly, zero downtime and high availability of services, zero-touch operations, zero-trust security and zero-wait user experience. We have upgraded the OceanProtect integrated backup solution,” added Mr. Cao.
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57 Respond to ransomware in three steps: secure, assess, recover
Network World
APRIL 25, 2017
Also, you have followed all best practices to ensure maximum data availability, so it’s likely your backups and disaster recovery sites were impacted as well. The latest detection software and data protection tactics are commonplace at your organization, intending to keep you out of this mess.
Bin Dasmal’s CIO on sharpening an agile mindset to strengthen business outcomes
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The upgrade has allowed the business to optimize the total cost of ownership by approximately 25% to 30%, while deploying serves with the highest standards of security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shifting the cost model from CAPEX to OPEX. Where have you been investing during the past two years in terms of tech initiatives?
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Database replication for global businesses: Achieving data consistency across distributed environments
Dataconomy
MAY 14, 2024
Disaster Recovery: Replicated data serves as a readily available backup, facilitating faster recovery in case of natural disasters or unforeseen technical issues and minimizing data loss and operational disruptions. Data Security: The additional touchpoints created by replication introduce new security risks.
Make EUC easy with the right Private Cloud
Nutanix
APRIL 7, 2020
Security, backup, disaster recovery, and storage consolidation - there are some key capabilities that should be built-in (natively integrated) and available to deliver you the right private cloud platform. Nutanix does.
World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder
Storage IO Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day).
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Partnering on Strategies for Data-First Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 1, 2022
This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location. Yet there’s no singular, one-size-fits-all framework for secure data storage and management. Upgrading IT and data security to reduce corporate risk was the No. Data Center
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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
The practice brings together formerly separate disciplines of information security, business continuity, and disaster response (BC/DR) deployed to meet common goals. It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”
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Continuous Monitoring – Part 2
CTOvision
JUNE 3, 2014
Security Lifecycle Management. Making sense” means a number of things here – understanding and remediating vulnerabilities, detecting and preventing threats, estimating risk to the business or mission, ensuring continuity of operations and disaster recovery, and enforcing compliance to policies and standards. Manage Accounts.
Fuel Innovation with Increased Data Access and Integrity with Sovereign Cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 13, 2023
Now that we’ve covered the importance of data sovereignty , as well as security, privacy, and compliance , let’s take a look at the business benefits of data access and integrity with sovereign cloud. without absolute access, your secure and compliant sovereign data is useless. Access to your data is critical!…without
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deserves Another Look. Here’s Why.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 2, 2022
For industry-leading protection against ransomware, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI can be combined with Zerto disaster recovery and data protection software. Built-in data protection and security provide essential resilience and disaster recovery to keep data safe—and even mitigate losses—on-premises, in the cloud, and from edge to core.
Is Your SaaS Data as Protected as You Think?
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 1, 2013
Originally published on Its All About Recovery as Is Your SaaS Data as Protected as You Think? I pride myself in the backup and recovery process I use for my home. Additionally, I have another backup/recovery process that I use on my off-site Web server to ensure all of my Web-based data and content is backed up to the cloud.
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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 28, 2023
Being VMware Cloud Verified, and having earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction, it offers enterprises a complete portfolio of compute, storage, security and networking solutions.
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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 28, 2022
On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. Data security must go hand-in-hand with cyber resilience. When a security incident happens, it is recommended to look at it holistically. Data and Information Security
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Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 29, 2014
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