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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

One such area that’s getting more thought today is SaaS backup and recovery, something many CIOs have to date taken for granted, leaving it to their SaaS vendors to not only deliver better than five-nines uptime but also be the sole entities backing up and recovering SaaS-siloed data that is increasingly vital to companies’ data-driven operations.

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO Business Intelligence

Implement redundant systems: Establishing redundant systems and data backups is essential for maintaining continuity. Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Backup Policy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ). Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. CTO Cyber Security Access control Consultants Information security InfoSec Management Policy Security Security policy'

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Tim McGuffin, Director of Adversarial Engineering at LARES Consulting, discusses the benefits to manual ransomware: "This is still fairly rare, however, it's a good method to bypass modern Endpoint Protection and Canary files that would alert and kill automated, system-wide ransomware. What is North Korea up to?

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Top 10 Quotes About Cloud Security

SecureWorld News

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. And that's just good, regular backups of data. And part of that is going to be your cyber liability insurance.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing.