How to Balance Disaster Recovery, Backup Systems, and Security
Information Week
APRIL 22, 2024
Dale Zabriskie, field CISO with Cohesity, and Kim Larsen, CISO with Keepit, discuss ways disaster recovery can work more closely with security.
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Information Week
APRIL 22, 2024
Dale Zabriskie, field CISO with Cohesity, and Kim Larsen, CISO with Keepit, discuss ways disaster recovery can work more closely with security.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Cybersecurity red teams are known for taking a more adversarial approach to security by pretending to be an enemy that’s attacking an organization’s IT systems. Let’s look at the tactics, strategies, and importance of red teams and the role they can play in enhancing the security of your backup system.
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CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
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. A disaster-recovery plan is no longer an option for SMEs; it's a must-have. SMEs are becoming more frequent targets of cyberattacks.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Investing in a robust disaster recovery program upfront can save considerable costs down the road. According to FEMA, nearly a quarter of businesses never re-open following a major disaster—a sobering statistic. [i] Without a robust disaster recovery plan in place, it can take days, weeks, or even months to recover.
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 9, 2015
If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. Disaster recovery planning is a challenge for every organization. The challenge for most organizations comes with the ‘how’ and the ‘when’ in disaster recovery planning.
SPF13
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery. There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery.
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 28, 2015
In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 19, 2014
It’s time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni. Industry Perspectives'
Tech Republic
JULY 20, 2022
Jack Wallen tests the Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office app, a disaster recovery tool anyone can use to create a full disk clone of crucial systems with ease. The post Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: The full image backup tool to meet today’s demanding needs appeared first on TechRepublic.
Network World
AUGUST 9, 2024
It’s not just knowing how to set up and maintain your servers and understanding how system commands work that makes you a good system administrator. It’s knowing these things and holding yourself to a set of cardinal rules that can help you keep your systems running smoothly and your users happy.
Network World
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Whether the disaster is a flood, a power outage or human error, IT departments have the critical role of getting business systems working again. And that requires reliable disaster-recovery software. Also on CSO: Lessons from high-profile IT failures ].
Galido
JUNE 13, 2019
Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. It always makes a lot of sense to be prepared for disasters. Understanding Disaster Recovery.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.
Tech Republic Cloud
AUGUST 11, 2022
Often used to supplement internal storage systems with scalable public cloud storage, or to streamline data backup processes and disaster recovery (DR) planning, hybrid cloud storage’s use cases are many.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
The latest CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan that can help organizations resume critical IT operations in case of emergencies. What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? The vendor also must ensure regular replica updates according to the client's recovery point objectives.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
Data is the lifeblood of modern business operations, which must be able to go on significant interruption in the face of accidental deletion, data corruption and systems failure. And in case of disaster — flood, fire, earthquake or ransomware — IT needs to be able to get the business back online with all of its data as quickly as possible.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
There were regional electrical outages and communications disruptions, and systems failed. We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. It’s a vivid memory because I was the CIO of an area financial institution at that time.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2023
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
You’ve done everything a smart and responsible organization needs to do to safeguard your systems, networks, data, and other assets from cyber threats. Furthermore, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and commonplace, and a 5-year-old disaster recovery plan may not cover modern scenarios.
SecureWorld News
JUNE 11, 2023
In today's world of advanced digital systems, cybercriminals' attacks have mounted, putting organizations from all sectors at significant risk if they don't act proactively against them. Cyber resilience is essential: it is the capacity to anticipate and plan recovery from Adverse Cyber Events or even adapt seamlessly after the occurrence.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Interconnectivity of gaming systems have physically transitioned from serial-based connectivity to Ethernet-based standards over the years, allowing potential hackers easier access to the gaming and/or corporate network. Read on for his thoughts on AI, zero trust, and more. What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics?
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
His views are shaped by more than two decades of experience overseeing mission-critical IT systems, first in the financial services industry, and today in service to Redcentric’s growing customer base that includes standouts across industries and in high-regulated sectors, including government agencies that provide critical national infrastructure.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 26, 2023
And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Backup and disaster recovery : "This seems like common sense, but far too often I see companies hit by ransomware with no real backup. Having a backup is vital in recovering data after a security incident, data corruption, or accidental deletion.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
NIST defines cyberresilience as “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.”. Adopting practices and frameworks designed to sustain IT capabilities as well as system-wide business operations is essential.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 28, 2022
On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. Logical air gapping creates a gap between the source storage and the immutable snapshots, while remote air gapping sends data to a remote system.
Network World
JULY 20, 2016
Department of Human Services has released new guidance for health care organizations that focuses on the growing threat of ransomware, stresses the need for better education and regular backups, and confirms that a ransomware attack against plain-text health information is, in fact, a breach that must be disclosed.
The Verge
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Federal agencies warned hospitals, health care providers, and public health groups Wednesday that they were at risk of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat” from ransomware, which could paralyze their computer systems and make it hard for them to deliver care. link] — Chris Krebs #Protect2020 (@CISAKrebs) October 29, 2020.
Network World
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
But, restoring these databases and apps from a traditional backup solution (appliance, cloud or tape) will take hours or even days which can cost a business tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 21, 2023
One example includes the use of closed-loop, water-free, and refrigerant-based cooling systems in all of the company’s data centers. Through our partnership with DuctSox , we helped develop the industry’s first customizable air displacement ventilation dispersion system,” he says. With a power usage effectiveness of 1.3,
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
NIST defines cyberresilience as “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.” Adopting practices and frameworks designed to sustain IT capabilities as well as system-wide business operations is essential. “The
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 1, 2013
Originally published on Its All About Recovery as Is Your SaaS Data as Protected as You Think? I pride myself in the backup and recovery process I use for my home. Additionally, I have another backup/recovery process that I use on my off-site Web server to ensure all of my Web-based data and content is backed up to the cloud.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 26, 2024
Jason Cao, Huawei’s CEO of Digital Finance BU Coining the term “non-stop banking”, Mr. Cao referred to an undisrupted financial services system running on a strong infrastructure foundation that is built to accelerate the industry’s digital and intelligent transformation journey. ‘4
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 5, 2024
Catholic Health’s IT systems and those of its partners were crashing, with one of its radiology vendors being among the first to experience technical difficulties. For many CIOs, being prepared, having disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place, and constant communication with stakeholders lessened the impact of the outage. “We
Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
They hear everyone else talking about it just assume it is a platform or system that will work for them. The use cases are: Disaster Recovery - The cloud makes perfect sense for disaster recovery. It gives an organization an almost instantaneous redundant backup and recovery solution.
Dataconomy
MAY 13, 2024
The order details need to be instantly reflected in the inventory management system located in Asia. Disaster recovery: Replicated data serves as a readily available backup, facilitating faster recovery in case of natural disasters or unforeseen technical issues and minimizing data loss and operational disruptions.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Also, the report stated that a comprehensive solution, robust data security and compliance systems, outstanding customer support, and continuous innovation are key success factors for hybrid cloud providers. All these benefits help them unlock new opportunities.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Huawei recently worked closely with a municipal government in an Asia Pacific country to understand its problem space and identify a series of issues in its environment, including isolated IT systems, lack of virtualised management rules, inefficient O&M, and slow response. Go digital in the changing environment.
Dataconomy
MAY 14, 2024
The order details need to be instantly reflected in the inventory management system located in Asia. Disaster Recovery: Replicated data serves as a readily available backup, facilitating faster recovery in case of natural disasters or unforeseen technical issues and minimizing data loss and operational disruptions.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 7, 2023
Notably, Cloudist’s cloud services include Infrastructure-as-a-Service based on VMware Cloud Director and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service based on VMware Cloud Director Availability. Needless to say, power savings and the efficient use of heat were not priorities.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 30, 2022
Their conclusions are worth noting by CIOs everywhere, all of whom are at risk of encountering similar service outages in their own countries, whether from system issues, intrusions, or power failure due to environmental or other causes. Check your suppliers’ backup plans. It is the very definition of a high-availability system.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 8, 2023
The core of KBA’s success is effective communication with all stakeholders, both directly within the school and indirectly using technologies such as audio, video, and messaging systems, and employing these functions to enable better outcomes. As a cloud-powered platform, Avaya Cloud Office requires no manual firmware updates.
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