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3% IT budget increases fueled by AI, security, networking

Network World

On the average, IT budgets will increase by 3%, which is a slight downturn from 4% in 2023 and 5% in 2022, but this year’s figures fall in line with previous budget plans in 2020 and 2021, according to Avasant. Essentially, only companies in dire financial straits are likely to be cutting IT budgets.

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Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery

SecureWorld News

This is the gist of a new report titled " A New Age of Disaster Recovery Planning for SMEs " (download required) produced by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by OVHcloud. The pandemic, geopolitical factors, and the new hybrid/work-from-home landscape put midsize companies at 500% more risk of being targeted in 2021.

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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

These plans should include: Regular backups of critical data Disaster recovery exercises to test response readiness Colonial Pipeline attack (2021) One of the most significant incidents highlighting vulnerabilities in the oil and gas sector was the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May 2021.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. additional dollars in the wider economy.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Turn off the lights, the party’s over This next story is, technically, an IT fail that dates back to 2021, but we’ll include it this year’s roundup because it was in 2023 when it was finally resolved. But in August 2021, teachers and students noticed that the lights were staying on at full brightness continuously.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, this month there will be a four-week (ISC)2 cybersecurity certification course covering security principles, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident response concepts, access control concepts, network security, and security operations. We know how to bridge that gap,” says Beasley.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

December 2021. Previously, he led the design, planning, implementation and delivery of IT managed services, cloud and security services, data centre and disaster recovery services at NTT. November 2021. September 2021. August 2021. Airtel CISO Manish Tiwari joins Fractal as CIO. He will be based in Gurugram.