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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

A business continuity plan is not the same as a disaster recovery plan , which focuses on restoring IT infrastructure and operations after a crisis. Because restoring IT is critical for most companies, numerous disaster recovery solutions are available. You can rely on IT to implement those solutions.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

With the CSO50 Conference + Awards coming to the We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort in Fort McDowell, Arizona, October 2-4, we asked Bill Tsoukatos, Information Technology Director at Fort McDowell Enterprises, which owns the resort, to tell us what it’s like to manage IT security at a casino property.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Donna Ross

SecureWorld News

In those roles, she had program responsibility for global IT Risk Management, Compliance, Privacy, Third-Party Risk Management, Program Delivery Office, and Security and Disaster Recovery, including strategy and policy. Q : What are you most looking forward to at your regional SecureWorld conference this year?

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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities

CTOvision

Background: At the Feb 2017 RSA conference, Ed Skoudis of SANS reported over 150 families of crypto ransomware were in the wild and evolving. SonicWall reported a 167 percent increase in ransomware attacks from 3.8 million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016.

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NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference

Cloud Musings

NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference. About the Gartner Data Center Conference 2012. The Gartner Data Center Conference is the most comprehensive. continuity and disaster recovery. compilation of sessions and advice on the future of the data center ever held.

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

Fountainhead

And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). Postcards from SDForum's Developer's Conference. Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Health.

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Cybersecurity Culture: How Princeton University's Security Team Created It

SecureWorld News

Princeton has a fire station, historical buildings, restaurants, a rescue squad police force, critical infrastructure, libraries, a power plant, sports facilities, concert halls, retail stores, a transportation system, museums, conferences, visiting dignitaries, and more. Web conference on making security programmatic and cultural.