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How retailers are improving productivity, transforming incident response, and empowering teams with PagerDuty by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

It found that its teams were receiving too many alerts. Without any priority mapping, unnecessary alerts often woke people up in the night. To reduce this alert fatigue, the first step was to gather data. The company pulled a year’s worth of alert history from PagerDuty and identified which services generated the most noise.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. Effective alert notifications represent an essential contribution to maintaining business continuity, especially for detecting and responding to incidents.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. This forms a strong pledge for effective alert notification and alarm management systems. While operational alerting tools like SIGNL4® ( www.signl4.com

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City emergency management officials realized there were flaws in the city’s data infrastructure. With artificial intelligence (AI), cities can identify unusual activity within data storage systems and alert IT leaders who can determine if the activity could be the result of a hack.

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There Is a Hole in the Boat: Why Access Control Professionals Need to Move From Wiegand to OSDP

Security Industry Association

These questions are too difficult to answer when there is no immediate alert, which can only be done with bidirectional communication. The Security Industry Association (SIA) adopted the Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) as the new access control standard in 2012. Was it tampered with? Was it vandalized? When did it stop working?

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4 Ways To Ensure Reliability of Your Digital Services for GivingTuesday by Jesse Maddex

PagerDuty

The growth of GivingTuesday (which takes place on the Tuesday following Black Friday) from $10 million in nonprofit donations in 2012 to more than $2 billion in 2020 shows that many people in the U.S. Start by reviewing your alert management program and services. Reduce alert fatigue before the holidays. Practice makes perfect.

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The Secret to Stopping Human Error is Automating Cloud Governance

Solutions Review

The Problem is Not Really Human Error Daily misconfiguration breaches used to plague public cloud service providers, but companies like AWS and Microsoft now help administrators understand when a misconfiguration might occur and alert users. Today, people rarely leave open cloud or data center-delivered services on the public Internet.