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Do you have a data breach response plan?

IT Governance BC

This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. An effective incident response programme can help you detect, react to and respond to incidents in a fast, planned and coordinated fashion, limiting the damage, reducing recovery time and costs, and enabling you to meet the GDPR’s requirements.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we list, link to, and sum up MHA’s best blogs on recovery testing, IT/disaster tests, and mock disaster exercises. Organizations interested in raising their testing game are invited to consult the blog posts mentioned above for insight and inspiration. Unfortunately, they are also one of the most neglected.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we list, link to, and sum up MHA’s best blogs on recovery testing, IT/disaster tests, and mock disaster exercises. Organizations interested in raising their testing game are invited to consult the blog posts mentioned above for insight and inspiration. Unfortunately, they are also one of the most neglected.

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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

Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware attacks are big news when they hit giant corporations, government services, and resources like gas pipelines. Create and test your incident response plan. Testing is a critical component of reducing ransomware risk.

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3 Ways to cybersecurity incident preparedness

Online Computers

This blog explores three ways you can better prepare for a cybersecurity incident. Develop an incident response plan An incident response plan is a formal document outlining what steps an organization will take when faced with various security incidents such as malware infections, data breaches, and denial-of-service attacks.

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An Opportunity to Learn from Our COVID-19 Successes and Failures

The Rand Blog

pandemic response plans of the past were no match for a protracted nationwide health emergency. COVID-19 showed that the U.S. What lessons were learned that could help the United States effectively protect its population and other vital national interests going forward?