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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

CIO Business Intelligence

Events like this highlight the importance of developing contingency plans based on events in the world that can impact businesses. Business continuity is an essential part of the planning process for CIOs and CTOs. Black swan events can impact businesses in significant ways. earthquakes) Directed threats (e.g.,

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Control D Launches Control D for Organizations: Democratizing Cybersecurity for Organizations of All Sizes

CIO Business Intelligence

This modern DNS service democratizes cybersecurity, making it accessible to businesses of every size, from budding start-ups to late stage SMBs and MSPs. Malware Blocking : Protecting business continuity against malicious threats with state-of-the-art detection techniques, all built in-house.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Modern advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and blockchain-based networks specifically have an impact in this area. Financial Institution Attacks: Financial institutions are highly susceptible to cyber threats due to their large amounts of highly sensitive data.

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How to handle business continuity in a crisis

Network World

If these systems go down due to a natural disaster, temporary power outage, loss of data center, ransomware or hacker attack, lost or corrupted files, or an application failure due to a software virus, the results can inflict significant financial harm. In the worst case, the business will be unable to continue functioning.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Italian CIOs at the crossroads of transformation and sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the corporate philosophy of Generalfinance, a financial services company focused on SMEs in difficulty, also combines innovation and sustainability. Business plans are focused on digital and sustainable transformation to bring us closer to the goal of a data-driven company,” says its CIO, Stefano Biondini.