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Lessons Your Business Can Learn from Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack 

LAN Infotech

What happened at Colonial Pipeline was a ransomware infection of the company’s computers that control business operations. It was not an attack on the operational technology (OT). Had the attack been on the OT, the technologies that control physical processes would have created a red alert about the intent of the hackers.

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What The Pipeline Oil Ransomware Attack TAUGHT Us

Assurance IT

Technology developments are now forcing enterprises to do the same but on their digital front. Hornung, the founder of Xact IT Solutions, a cybersecurity firm gave some advice for business leaders and said, “… incident response planning is critical and should be part of every organization’s business plan.

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Measuring organizational resilience: tools, techniques, and best practices

everbridge

From there, organizations can more successfully build out resilient operations by identifying specific areas of improvement and the right technology to solve their unique challenges. Global economic recessions will significantly alter business plans or cause failure. What is organizational resilience?

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What is Business Continuity?

Erwood Group

Business Impact Analysis. Business Continuity Strategies. Incident Response. Plan Development and Implementation. Business Continuity Plan Exercises, Assessment, and Maintenance. You’ll need to select viable business continuity recovery strategies for the following areas: People. Technology.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Why did we write this guide?

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Technological disruptions (loss of data centers, data breaches or other IT security-related incidents).