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Backup and recovery terms that you should know in 2023

Online Computers

The storm cost New Jersey businesses up to $30 billion in damages and lost income. Or remember the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017? Count yourself lucky if your business was spared of these calamities. Many other businesses are not so fortunate, as such data loss events forced many companies to shut down for good.

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TSPs: Making the Case to Invest in Risk and Resiliency

Fusion Risk Management

percentage points from January 2017 to January 2022.” Technology firms that do business in the supply chain ecosystem of highly regulated entities must respond to RFP (request for proposal) requests understanding their back-end IT security, disaster recovery, compliance, and privacy programs. Ability to Procure Cyber Insurance.

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Cyberrisk Management Tips for Businesses Amid the Russia-Ukraine War

Risk Management Monitor

Spill-over to other businesses is more likely with cyber conflict, however, particularly given Russia is one of the most advanced and aggressive nation-state cyber threat actors —remember the crippling global attack known as NotPetya that upended supply chains in 2017 resulted from a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine.

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Disaster recovery: Businesses should have solid plan in place

Titan Data Services

By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton For the Tulsa Business & Legal News. Sep 8, 2017. Canfield & Joseph was among the 150 businesses damaged or destroyed by an EF-2 tornado that hit midtown Tulsa in early August. In today’s world, when we talk about business continuity, we’re talking about data and company management,” he said.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

As business continuity professionals, you have to be aware of this and take steps to ensure that unscrupulous people and organisations are not taking advantage of the situation. The FBI estimates that up to $6bn of $80bn in government funds earmarked for reconstruction went to insurance fraudsters.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

As business continuity professionals, you have to be aware of this and take steps to ensure that unscrupulous people and organisations are not taking advantage of the situation. The FBI estimates that up to $6bn of $80bn in government funds earmarked for reconstruction went to insurance fraudsters.

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The evolution of cyber crime

SRM

One particularly ingenious type of phishing attack first appeared in 2017 but is still being used because it preys successfully on the unsuspecting and (potentially) vulnerable. And they can disappear almost as quickly as they appear, making it hard to identify or trace them. So how can we defend ourselves from these ever evolving threats?