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What is Cyber Resilience and Why It Matters

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Resilience is all about the ability to recover quickly when faced with a challenge. For businesses, resilience is often tied directly to business continuity, where professionals are tasked with ensuring an organization can quickly adjust, adapt, respond, and recover from disruptions and disasters. 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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Supply Chain Resiliency: Beyond Third-Party Risk Programs

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We spoke with MassMutual CISO Ariel Weintraub about how firms need to go beyond third-party risk management to focus on supply chain resiliency, and the different thinking required to effectively build it. You cannot define your own resiliency based on the assumed resiliency of another component in the supply chain.

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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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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. Get the Getting Started with Resilience Management Guide. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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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

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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.