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10 Hard Lessons Learned From My Personal Disaster Recovery

Social, Agile and Transformation

And yet, while I call this my personal disaster recovery, it really isn't that personal or that significant of a disaster. Labor Day has new meaning in our house. I have tremendous new respect for all people who earn their living from hard, sweaty, dirty work.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

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?

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

Network World

Some common approaches include: Social engineering: Red teams often employ social engineering techniques to exploit human vulnerabilities. Securing backup systems: Backup systems are critical for disaster recovery and business continuity. Red teams demonstrate the ease with which these vulnerabilities can be exploited.

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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response. – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency this week joined GitHub, a popular social network that allows programmers to collaborate and share computer code between users. April 11, 2014. SPRINGFIELD, Va. If they can do open source, any agency can. github.com/ngageoint.”.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

Many documents include personally identifying information, such as Social Security Numbers (SSNs), birthdates, and home addresses. Best-in-class cloud storage providers are equipped with world-class regional data centers that help ensure data security, high performance and availability, as well as business continuity/disaster recovery.

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