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Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience

CIO Business Intelligence

Business disruptions happen every day and can cause companies to lose millions of dollars and suffer reputational damage. When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. Dugan Krwawicz.

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The CIO’s missing priority

CIO Business Intelligence

What this means is that nobody will congratulate you and your team for a job well done, nor will anyone ask what support you’ll need to continue to keep the company safe. No, every year your information security practices succeed is one more year IT’s budget approvers will be convinced you’ve been overstating the risks.

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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.

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You’re not alone in the cyber battlefield

Dataconomy

The first step in working with a Managed Security Service Provider is to conduct an assessment of the client’s IT infrastructure to identify potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses. This assessment helps the MSSP understand the client’s specific security needs and develop a customized plan to address them.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Similar to disaster recovery, business continuity, and information security, data strategy needs to be well thought out and defined to inform the rest, while providing a foundation from which to build a strong business.” Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

The one huge lesson is there’s no bad side to planning to avert pushing the limits of technology capacity, workforce resiliency, and existing business continuity strategies and disaster recovery planning. Follow these steps to both safeguard it and ensure continuity of its process: Activate and engage. Something happens!

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. Data security must go hand-in-hand with cyber resilience. The right data protection and cyber resilience can mean the difference between staying in business and going bankrupt.

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