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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Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
This is the gist of a new report titled " A New Age of Disaster Recovery Planning for SMEs " (download required) produced by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by OVHcloud. A disaster-recovery plan is no longer an option for SMEs; it's a must-have. SMEs are becoming more frequent targets of cyberattacks.
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com
SPF13
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery. There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery.
Disaster Recovery and the Agile Data Center
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 9, 2015
If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. Disaster recovery planning is a challenge for every organization. The challenge for most organizations comes with the ‘how’ and the ‘when’ in disaster recovery planning.
Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 28, 2015
In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.
Kasten by Veeam Announces Kubernetes Native Ransomware Protection
Forrester IT
APRIL 28, 2021
Disaster Recovery and Data Resilience support for Kubernetes workloads has been a hot topic lately with all the major backup and data resilience vendors scrambling to build more features into their Kubernetes focused products.
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? Information Technology Blog. 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.
Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The exposed database, containing more than 17 billion records, has raised concerns about the security of sensitive healthcare provider information and negotiated rates for medical procedures. Fortunately, this database did not contain any customer or patient information. terabytes of data.
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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
A slight majority of data already lives outside of the data center, and the day is not long off when it won’t even store the largest share of enterprise information. But even though the largest share of data is still in the data center, the momentum is clearly with the cloud and the edge.
The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. And as any CIO who has dealt with a similar experience knows, the often-overlooked PR piece can put even the most bullet-proof of disaster recovery plans in peril.
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.
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.
Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. Why a disaster recovery plan may not be good enough Many organizations have disaster recovery plans and assume the concept of disaster recovery and cyber recovery are the same: a system or location goes down, you shift operations, complete recovery efforts, and return to normal.
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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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.
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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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 […].
Database replication for global businesses: Achieving data consistency across distributed environments
Dataconomy
MAY 13, 2024
However, without proper data replication, challenges arise: Latency issues: Accessing information stored in a distant data center can lead to latency, causing delays and hindering user experience, impacting everything from website loading times to application responsiveness.
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Database replication for global businesses: Achieving data consistency across distributed environments
Dataconomy
MAY 14, 2024
However, without proper data replication, challenges arise: Latency Issues: Accessing information stored in a distant data center can lead to latency, causing delays and hindering user experience, impacting everything from website loading times to application responsiveness.
Using Velero to Protect Cluster API
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 11, 2021
In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) to backup and restore Cluster API objects so as to protect your organization against an unrecoverable issue on your Cluster API management cluster. Once you’ve paused reconciliation for Cluster API, you can then run a backup using Velero.
Data Protection Gumbo = Protect Preserve and Serve Information
Storage IO Blog
APRIL 13, 2015
Keep in mind that a fundamental role of Information Technology (IT) is to protect, preserve and serve business or organizations information assets including applications, configuration settings and data for use when or where needed. Also, keep in mind that only you can prevent data loss, are your restores ready for when you need them?
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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8 big IT failures of 2023
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however. The FAA maintains a database called Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) that provides an automated, centralized source of information about things like closed runaways or equipment outages at various airports, or hazards along different routes.
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New HIPAA guidance addresses ransomware
Network World
JULY 20, 2016
Department of Human Services has released new guidance for health care organizations that focuses on the growing threat of ransomware, stresses the need for better education and regular backups, and confirms that a ransomware attack against plain-text health information is, in fact, a breach that must be disclosed.
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.”. Cloud Security
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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. Immutable snapshots allow for rapid recovery from cyberattacks and ensure that the copies of the data cannot be altered, deleted, or edited in any way.
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Micro Logic’s Projet Cirrus – Bringing Sovereign Cloud to Canada
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2023
High profile incidents as well as the widespread collection and use of data have led to a growing preoccupation with what happens to the information we share or upload online,” adds Garneau. Today, those same motivations and same concerns have only grown stronger.”
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Partnering on Strategies for Data-First Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 1, 2022
Two well-known examples: GDPR in Europe and HIPAA privacy rules for health information in the U.S. HPE GreenLake’s backup-and-recovery services help companies fulfill data protection service-level agreements (SLAs) without having to make upfront capital investments or take on overprovisioning risk. Data Center
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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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Preparing For World Backup Day 2017 Are You Prepared
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 27, 2017
Preparing For World Backup Day 2017 Are You Prepared In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Friday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day). The annual day is a to remember to make sure you are protecting your applications, data, information, configuration settings as well as data infrastructures.
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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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Secure data-first modernization? Leverage a trusted ecosystem of partners
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
Two well-known examples: GDPR in Europe and HIPAA privacy rules for health information in the U.S. HPE GreenLake’s backup-and-recovery services help companies fulfill data protection service-level agreements (SLAs) without having to make upfront capital investments or take on overprovisioning risk.
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Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 22, 2024
Sicuramente la grande maggioranza dei Chief Information Officer definisce “priorità numero uno” la sicurezza dei sistemi IT aziendali. Per noi questo passo è essenziale, perché la gestione degli impianti di produzione è il nostro core business e dobbiamo garantire la business continuity e il disaster recovery”, sottolinea Esposito.
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Data Protection Fundamentals Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions)
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
Enabling Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions) Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 4 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics (..)
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Use Cases for the Cloud
Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
The use cases are: Disaster Recovery - The cloud makes perfect sense for disaster recovery. It gives an organization an almost instantaneous redundant backup and recovery solution. Information Technology The New CIO cloud Strategy use cases'
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Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 29, 2014
Think of data protection like protect, preserve and serve information […].
Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
They had a sense of total control over the processed information. Companies are continuously processing more sensitive information while increasing their exposure to cloud services,” he says. Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet.
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Data Center Physical Security Best Practices
Galido
MAY 27, 2016
Power should be redundant with multiple power sources and at least 24 hrs of backup power. Any paper containing sensitive information should be shredded or disposed of properly. Disaster Recovery. A disaster recovery plan should be in place and all important parties must be notified in the event of a disaster.
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Select the Right Tech for the Right Transformation Task, Huawei Advises
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 10, 2022
During our conversation, Derek Hao, President of Global Marketing, Huawei Enterprise Business Group shared that while many businesses have implemented basic workflow in a digital equivalent, fewer have taken full advantage of the data available to them to inform their processes.
What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 30, 2022
Shaun Guthrie, Peavey Mart Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada Peavey Mart. As a result, “only two stores were directly impacted where they had no internet connectivity,” says Shaun Guthrie, the company’s Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada. says Guthrie.
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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data. .”
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.
Dialog Enterprise: keeping the data of Sri Lanka’s enterprises safe and sovereign
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2023
Offering an extensive portfolio of ICT solutions and services in conjunction with its high-available data centers, fastest broadband internet and telecommunications networks for consumers and businesses, Dialog Enterprise is one of the most trusted information and communication technology brands in Asia.
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