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Are you ready for a power outage

Business Continuity Today

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

MHA Consulting

The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework. A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event.

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Are you ready for a power outage

Business Continuity Today

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. High security, compartmentalized access, biometrics, the works. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish.

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Zero Trust Security: What BC Practitioners Need to Know

MHA Consulting

Zero Trust is the emerging approach to network security that requires verification of all traffic, external and internal. Here’s what business continuity professionals need to know about the rigorous new security framework that is designed to protect organizations from hackers and their bots.

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Security teams need to become more proactive and risk-driven

Behavior Group

83% of companies would suffer business damage during the first 24 hours of an outage and thereafter, which comes as no surprise with recent surges in ransomware and other attacks wreaking havoc across IT infrastructures, a Dimensional Research survey reveals.

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10 Security Trends and Predictions for 2022 

Pure Storage

As we get ready to welcome 2022, this past year has left a big impression on the security landscape. infrastructure organizations¹—and lesser security threats causing minimal damage. That said, I want to share what I believe are some of the top security trends to watch in 2022: “Connected” or “smart” buildings could be new targets.

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