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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. The threat landscape. Conclusion.

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO Business Intelligence

The practice brings together formerly separate disciplines of information security, business continuity, and disaster response (BC/DR) deployed to meet common goals. What cyberresilience really focuses us on is protecting critical services so we can deal with business risks in the most effective way.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

These attacks employ malicious software that encrypts files, rendering them inaccessible until a ransom is paid or a backup is restored. By developing the habit of promptly locking our devices, even for a brief moment, we can effectively minimize the risk of unauthorized access and potential data breaches.

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Cyber Resilience: Building Immunity in the Face of Evolving Threats

SecureWorld News

Business continuity and disaster recovery Cybersecurity initiatives require much more than technical measures; organizations must also understand the importance of business continuity planning and disaster recovery procedures. Lessons learned from such incidents should always be shared company-wide.

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Huawei talks tech at MWC 2022: building an intelligent services portfolio

CIO Business Intelligence

As data becomes more and more critical to our customers business continuity,” says Stokbroekx, “we have strengthened and upgraded our disaster recovery and backup service capabilities, really meeting the business continuity requirements of multi-cloud environments.”.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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