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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions

Pure Storage

This includes having visibility into your IT estate and staying on top of the security of operating systems, applications, and firmware —and applying critical patches as needed. Create and test your incident response plan. Along with creating an incident response plan , consider the infrastructure necessary to support it.

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How Keeping Track of Microsoft’s Product Plans Can Keep Your Network Secure

LAN Infotech

How Keeping Track of Microsoft’s Product Plans Can Keep Your Network Secure. Key Points in This Article: CIOs and IT administrators must ensure that their networks remain free and clear of outdated software applications, which can pose a tremendous security risk. Why You Need to Retire Outdated Software Applications.

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These social media mistakes can endanger your business’s cybersecurity posture

Online Computers

Using unauthorized third-party applications Employees may unknowingly grant access to their social media accounts to third-party applications that are malicious or have questionable security practices.

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Understanding DORA: How to operationalize digital resilience

everbridge

It is crucial for organizations to assess their business strategies and identify applicable requirements for compliance. It facilitates the automation of standard operating procedures and response plans, as well as communicating with key stakeholders.

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How Banks Benefit from the New Digital Operational Resilience Act

Pure Storage

They must have a plan, ready for execution, in a “day after attack” situation. Challenges with Legacy Setups A major stumbling block for organisations’ response plans are the limitations in the setup of their current architecture. This is a complex process for financial institutions that have thousands of applications.

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Cyber Incident Response Plans – Turning Words into Action

Bernstein Crisis Management

Yet surprisingly few have meaningful and up-to-date incident response plans (IRPs) in place to manage and mitigate this threat. Such plans, if properly designed and updated, can spell the difference between strong mitigation and recovery from an incident and prolonged, crisis-driven recovery or no recovery at all.