Business resiliency enables organizations that have suffered a damaging incident to bounce back to their former form. 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. The attackers attempted to extort the business by claiming a “large fee” would resolve data loss issues. MORE

Today’s top trend with software development leaders is continuous development. Continuous Delivery – Many of the advantages Agile holds over Waterfall boil down to shorter cycle times. Continuous development is the natural progression of iteration times shrinking into insignificance. Elements of cybersecurity include: Application security, Information security, Network security, Disaster recovery / business continuity planning, and End-user education. MORE

As a leader in your organization, you understand why you need a business continuity plan: to keep your team productive during operational disruptions and to guard against lost revenue and damage to your reputation. Your Business Continuity Plan: Evaluate Risks. Begin your planning process by developing various risk scenarios and determining how those possibilities might impact your ability to continue operations. blog business continuity plan MORE

“Our Talent Solutions business continues to be impacted as fewer companies, including ours, need to hire at the same volume they did previously.” LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. LinkedIn Photo). MORE

There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. The beliefs of the people in charge of developing these processes (business owners and IT department) play a significant role in how effective the overall strategy will be. One of the biggest reasons businesses put off developing a disaster recovery strategy is because they believe it will become too expensive and resource intensive. MORE

Cloud and digital forensics readiness are therefore critical to business disaster recovery, continuity of business services and cloud ecosystem management. The benefits of digital forensic readiness include: Reducing the cost of cyber investigations; Quick determination of relevant attack vector; Reduction in the cost for data disclosure; Faster restoration from damage; and Cyber insurance discounts. MORE

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Blizzards, hurricanes, and rainstorms occur every year, affecting businesses, homes, and institutions. To succeed, you need various strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity. Understanding Business Continuity. Effects of natural and man-made disasters to businesses and institutions need to be mitigated appropriately. MORE

But the cloud's "as-a-Service" model does not provide service levels with penalties; rather, services are "best effort" with at most an outage penalty that is far less than the business value of the service disruption or breach. for your business. MORE

That being said, I believe there is the small spark of opportunity for selected IT leaders to use this very dramatic and very public event to drive a more meaningful discussion with their executive teams around business continuity. That being said, there is a very real and palpable issue between IT leaders who fully understand the threats and know how to best prepare -- and the willingness of business leaders to invest in that kind of comparatively expensive IT insurance. MORE

Enterprise CIOs, like shepherds, take care of their business’s technology/information assets, however, many pitfalls ahead may make a dedicated, responsible CIO a falling scapegoat. There are many WHYs need be asked, many Hows need to be experimented, in order for an enterprise to focus more on problem-solving than finger-pointing; to make a fair judgment in leadership and talent management and to optimize business governance & discipline. MORE

Just 12% of more than 1,500 people polled in a Gartner business continuity webinar on March 6 believe their businesses are highly prepared for the impact of coronavirus, while 26% believe that the virus will have little or no impact on their business. Just 2% of respondents believe their business can continue as normal, highlighting the huge range of businesses that could be affected by the outbreak. Review impact on business operations. MORE

By making critical information invisible to third parties, including the host, it potentially removes the remaining barrier to cloud adoption for highly regulated businesses in the financial services, insurance and healthcare sectors. Cloud computing has proven battle-ready. MORE

Marketing IT through Proactive Communications Either to internal or external audiences, promoting IT is to achieve business objectives. Modern CIOs and other IT leaders do need to become good marketers themselves in order to engage in business communication and change. Successful Communication Achieves Clear Business Goals Successful communication programs are designed to affect change or encourage adoption of a product or service -- internally or externally. MORE

IT leaders need to create value for AI by establishing business benefits such as cost reductions and operations improvement by providing practical applications of the technology. . AI is emerging as an important enabler of cost optimization and business continuity during the COVID-19 crisis. MORE

To ensure the highest-level redundancy and reliability, Agility Recovery will work directly with UCS audited and certified service providers to bring qualified and trusted IT support to customers that have suffered a disruption to their business as a result of a disaster. Business continuity is an important aspect of any organization’s strategic planning. New Cloud Computing Insurance Attempts to Solve Cloud Liability Concerns For Service Providers (forbes.com). MORE

Today their DR site not only ensures business continuity, it plays an active role in daily computing requirements—notably improving utilization. The Farm Bureau chose Egenera to power the delivery and management of Web-based insurance services to thousands of personal and commercial insurance customers. Business Models. (1). Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. MORE