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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

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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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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Cyber Resilience: Building Immunity in the Face of Evolving Threats

SecureWorld News

It involves actively firing up multiple layers of security controls such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, secure configurations access controls, performing regular patch management and vulnerability scanning, and training employees on cybersecurity best practices.

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As businesses digitally transform, technology is increasingly integrated into every activity, and the CIO is becoming more of a catalyst for data-driven value creation through analytics, new AI model training, software development, automation, vendor engagement, and more. Standard or customized products?

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