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The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com

SPF13

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.

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What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? 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. Understanding Disaster Recovery.

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Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database

SecureWorld News

In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. The exposed database offered a unique glimpse into the operations of Cigna Health, one of the nation's largest health insurance providers.

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HIPPA and Ransomware in the Healthcare Sector: “Your PHI or your life”

CTOvision

From a HHS blog post: To help health care entities better understand and respond to the threat of ransomware, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has released new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidance on ransomware. Preventing ransomware is now more clearly expected for HIPPA compliance.

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Military Tips On Business Resiliency

Cloud Musings

This is especially important for small and medium sized businesses because according to Tim Francis, enterprise leader for cyber insurance for Travelers, 60% of all cyberattacks in 2014 struck small to medium-sized businesses. Business resiliency enables organizations that have suffered a damaging incident to bounce back to their former form.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Many organizations have purpose-built solutions for asking business intelligence questions, providing disaster recovery/backup, etc., Instead, businesses make difficult tradeoffs as to what will and will not be recoverable should disaster strike. As a schemaless system, the latest release of Hadoop (2.x)

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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

CIO Business Intelligence

What should you do if there is a regional outage – a disaster recovery (DR) situation? Instead, you could choose to back up your data to another region, and have your RTO/RPO reflect the fact that your tradeoff is longer recovery for a simpler architecture. Doing cross-regional synchronization is complex and expensive.