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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks, and other disruptive events can cause irreparable harm to your organization which can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, or even a complete business shut down. What is disaster recovery? An answer to this question can be simple: all of them.

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Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery

SecureWorld News

Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) often do not have the resources to protect themselves from cybercriminals with bad intentions, leaving them vulnerable to financial and productivity losses, operation disruptions, extortion payments, settlement costs, and regulatory fines. SMEs are becoming more frequent targets of cyberattacks.

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Avoid These 3 Disaster Recovery Mistakes

IT Toolbox

That's why a good disaster recovery plan is so important. It safeguards a company's IT infrastructure and minimizes financial loss as a result of a disaster. However, not all companies implement security planning solutions

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Agility Recovery To Enhance Disaster Recovery Program With Globally Recognized Certification Standard From the MSPAlliance

CTOvision

The International Association of Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance), today announced that Agility Recovery would leverage the Unified Certification Standard audit (UCS) for Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for its disaster recovery program. ABOUT AGILITY RECOVERY.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO Business Intelligence

Introduced in 2020—and later enacted in 2022—DORA aims to establish a consistent and common level of digital operational resilience across financial services firms in—or doing business with—the EU. The ultimate goal here being to develop an approach that fosters a standardized structure of technological development.

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s a vivid memory because I was the CIO of an area financial institution at that time. We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. We realized then that the real disaster we were fighting was PR, not DR. It made us rethink our approach to disaster recovery.