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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Distinguish between business continuity and disaster recovery Organizations tend to confuse Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). While seeming quite similar at the first glimpse, disaster recovery principles and practices have a different purpose from those of business continuity.

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Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database

SecureWorld News

The database, astonishingly lacking password protection, contained a wealth of information pertaining to Cigna Health and its vast network of healthcare providers. Fowler emphasized the potential risks that misconfigured cloud storage repositories can pose, as they may inadvertently reveal details about an organization's internal network.

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Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli

CIO Business Intelligence

Quest’anno, a rafforzare la spinta verso la sicurezza informatica c’è anche la Direttiva NIS2 (“Network and information system security”) dell’UE, che andrà a sostituire la precedente NIS, aggiornando le misure per un elevato livello di cybersicurezza in tutta l’Unione Europea. E, come sappiamo, sono solo gli incidenti “riportati”.

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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. Do you have maintenance windows?

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Si può tornare indietro dal cloud? Ecco che cosa ne pensano i CIO italiani

CIO Business Intelligence

Proprio qui è il nodo: il 63% delle organizzazioni misura il contributo del cloud al business aziendale come risparmio sui costi e gestisce il cloud con le logiche dei sistemi on-prem, nonostante i modelli di pricing siano diversi. È più comodo lavorare su prodotti cloud-ready, che danno grande flessibilità.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

A managed service provider (MSP) is an outsourcer contracted to remotely manage or deliver IT services such as network, application, infrastructure, or security management to a client company by assuming full responsibility for those services, determining proactively what technologies and services are needed to fulfill the client’s needs.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

CIO Business Intelligence

The week’s high-profile resignation of Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin in the wake of the Australian telco’s massive outage that left 10 million Australians and 400,000 businesses without phone or internet for up to 12 hours earlier this month underscores the stakes involved when it comes to setting an IT strategy for business resilience.