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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Better Late Than Never: There’s Still Time To Improve Your Pandemic Plans Companies are showing renewed interest in business continuity and revising their pandemic plans in response to the coronavirus outbreak. And, a review of the risk sections of the annual reports for the Fortune 50 showed that about half […].

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Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience

CIO Business Intelligence

When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. CIOs should apply a business lens that informs how the business could be impacted (operationally, financially, legally, etc.)

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How to handle business continuity in a crisis

Network World

If these systems go down due to a natural disaster, temporary power outage, loss of data center, ransomware or hacker attack, lost or corrupted files, or an application failure due to a software virus, the results can inflict significant financial harm. In the worst case, the business will be unable to continue functioning.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. Cybersecurity has become a boardroom priority with far-reaching implications for business continuity and reputation.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Shashank Jain, CIO at the financial services firm, Shree Financials, suggested a strategic shift. Saurabh Gugnani, Director and Head of CyberDefence, IAM, and Application Security at Netherlands-headquartered TMF Group, added that a diversified approach to cloud strategies could mitigate such risks.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on. An extra layer of redundancy may become critical.”

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO Business Intelligence

“If, for example, there’s an immediate or gradual interruption of essential services provided by the client company, there’ll surely also be effects on daily operations or business continuity that may result in chain breaches of contract,” he says. Another possibility is that the company that disappears is a reseller.