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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

Natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks, and other disruptive events can cause irreparable harm to your organization which can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, or even a complete business shut down. What is disaster recovery? An answer to this question can be simple: all of them.

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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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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Physical security of the Ethernet/fiber cabling, along with the switch hardware interconnecting today’s casino floors, has become a much bigger focus of IT security teams as direct physical access can often be the starting point for unauthorized access. Events, Media and Entertainment Industry, Security

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SDDR works at the hypervisor layer and does not depend on hardware.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.

Data Center Knowledge

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.

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Cloud technologies for startups: Fuelling growth and innovation

Dataconomy

The adoption of cloud technology brings forth cost efficiency Cloud computing offers a significant advantage by reducing hardware costs. Additionally, they had to purchase on-premises hardware to establish their own data centers before developing, testing, and launching digital products or services successfully.

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

However, a major catastrophic event can test the effectiveness of these plans. 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. Something happens!