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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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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO Business Intelligence

The question is: are you prepared to recover from a cyber event? As cyber threats increase in frequency and sophistication, most businesses will eventually fall prey to a cyber event, despite their best efforts. Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. The longer it takes to recover, the more it will cost.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. A business continuity plan gives the organization the best shot at successfully navigating a disaster by providing ready-made directions on who should do what tasks in what order to keep the business viable.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Educating end users on how to detect a phishing scam or social engineering tactics may be the most important element in mitigating most cybersecurity events. Events, Media and Entertainment Industry, Security As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. This checks that systems have the appropriate levels of protections to remain operational in the event of a cyberincident.

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. This checks that systems have the appropriate levels of protections to remain operational in the event of a cyberincident.

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How to avoid business downtime when navigating digital transformation

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Business owners need to understand that they are increasing their business’ cyber-attack surface. In the event that a cyber-attack is successful, the downtime could spell financial disaster for an organization. With cyber-attacks against UK organizations increasing in 2019 , businesses can’t afford to take risks.

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