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Are you ready for a power outage

Business Continuity Today

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

MHA Consulting

The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework. A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event.

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Are you ready for a power outage

Business Continuity Today

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages, Restore: Repair vs Root Cause by David Ridge

PagerDuty

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. The correct action, especially in the face of a service outage, would be to opt for a swift rollback of the change that introduced the bug. Or maybe it’s just 2am and not exactly the best time to start coding!

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APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages – Dismantling Knowledge Silos by David Ridge

PagerDuty

Access Gap : Modern security standards dictate that privileged access should not be handed out flippantly to anyone. Modern organisations need to be able to dismantle the knowledge silos in order to avoid incident bottlenecks and reliance on a single individual, without compromising the resilience or security of their systems.

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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. High security, compartmentalized access, biometrics, the works. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish.

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Zero Trust Security: What BC Practitioners Need to Know

MHA Consulting

Zero Trust is the emerging approach to network security that requires verification of all traffic, external and internal. Here’s what business continuity professionals need to know about the rigorous new security framework that is designed to protect organizations from hackers and their bots.