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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. Immutable snapshots allow for rapid recovery from cyberattacks and ensure that the copies of the data cannot be altered, deleted, or edited in any way. Recover the data.

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Password Encryption 101: Best Practices Guide for Orgs of All Sizes

SecureWorld News

Malware Certain types of malicious software are designed to steal passwords or attempt to crack passwords. Keeping software and operating systems up to date, using security software, and being careful when opening email attachments or clicking links can help avoid malware. Finally, implement a database disaster recovery plan.

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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. There are many recent examples of malware or hacking crippling business operations. . Something happens!

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO Business Intelligence

This means that every possession in a company’s storage estate needs to be cyber resilient, designed to thwart ransomware, malware, internal cyber threats, and other potential attacks. You need to think of your enterprise storage as part of your holistic corporate security strategy. Data is the lifeblood of all modern enterprises.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

It turns out the system had been hit by malware , and had gone into a fallback mode in which the lights never turned off. A repair plan was finally developed, but by then post-COVID lockdown supply chain disruptions meant it was months before new equipment could be shipped from China to Massachusetts.

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Should You Have a Business Email Compromise Incident Response Plan?

SecureWorld News

You have a Disaster Recovery Plan and a Cyber Incident Response Plan. Weaponization - While most BEC attacks don't involve malware, it isn't completely unheard of. But for the most part, the BEC "weaponization" process is more aligned to compiling the reconnaissance to develop authentic-appearing email accounts and messages.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

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