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APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages – Dismantling Knowledge Silos by David Ridge

PagerDuty

Organisations, particularly in highly regulated industries, require an accountable, auditable, person with human judgement to approve the restart, rollback, or change of production systems. This type of automation is also considerably safer to run automatically than something remediatory.

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Why Microsoft Azure Active Directory Backup Is Needed

Zerto

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself. Customers, as well as internal team members, were severely impacted.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages. In many parts of the world, winter weather and Acts of Nature can impact operations from commuting to shipping to increased chance of power outages. Closing the books.

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The 5 most common causes of server downtime and how to prevent them

Online Computers

Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. The difficult thing about network outages is that they can be caused by anything from router failures to cable cuts to internet service provider problems. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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Customer Value Story: How to Know What You Don’t Know

LogisManager

This AI-powered feature was a good fit for this client as it positioned them to significantly streamline their due diligence process and keep an audit trail of their work. What percentage of their daily operations would be impacted if this vendor had an outage? How much sensitive information does this vendor have access to?

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How flexible is your BCP?

KingsBridge BCP

We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. You should be able to use the same BCP to respond to a fire, a train derailment, a power outage, or an active threat. As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans.

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