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What is Cyber Resilience and Why It Matters

Castellan

Today, with an increasing number of successful cyber breaches (like ransomware attacks) making headlines, resilience is often discussed in terms of cyber resilience. But when you hear the term “cyber resilience,” what does it entail and what does it mean for your operations? What is Cyber Resilience?

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience. Cyber resilience is part of a much bigger picture and as such is evolving as a critical component of business continuity.

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NexusTek Announces Appointment of Hamilton Yu as New CEO and Bobby Christian as Executive Chairman

NexusTek

Hamilton’s appointment comes as Bill Wosilius steps down as CEO of NexusTek, after 5 years of driving growth and unifying a company that had acquired several other tech companies at the time of his arrival in 2019.

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Ransomware + Cryptocurrency = Costly for Your Business

NexusTek

In less than two years, the average ransomware payment went from $12,000 in Q4 2019 to $54,000 in Q1 2021. In 2019, a total of $92 million in cryptocurrency was sent to ransomware attackers; in 2020, that total rose to $406 million. Jumpstart Your Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency.

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3 Ways to Prep Your Business IT for the Holiday Shopping Season

NexusTek

billion—32% more than in 2019, according to Adobe Analytics. In 2019, J. Kaspersky found that cyberattacks on holiday shoppers were up 15% in 2019, and last year, the most DDoS attacks in Q4 were on December 31 with 1,349 attacks recorded across the globe. November 3, 2021. The holiday shopping season is coming. Last year, U.S.

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Supply Chain Resiliency: Beyond Third-Party Risk Programs

FS-ISAC

Now that cyber attacks are a primary reason suppliers become unavailable, the two areas need to come together both in the documentation of plans and testing. Third-party risk programs can assess the cyber resiliency of each key supplier, but that is not enough.

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Expect the Unexpected: Looking Back on Season Two of Business, Interrupted

Castellan

One of the big themes throughout the season, Zawada pointed out, was the shifting focus on cyber risk and cybersecurity across industries, and the many challenges organizations face from a supply chain and dynamic risk perspective. Cyber Resilience. Cybersecurity has really amped up,” Boltz said. “We