There are two things you must have in place before you begin planning a cyber breach exercise to ensure that the exercise will go smoothly. Both are critically important. You need senior management commitment and [...]
All it takes is one weak link in your network or e-mail environment for corporate correspondence to become fair game to anyone with network access. Not only is e-mail an important business tool; it’s a [...]
Incident response – the art and science of responding to computer and network security breaches – is an often overlooked component of business continuity. For whatever reasons, the procedures associated with handling network intrusions and [...]
IT Complexity and the Risk of IT Failure For the past few years, the unabashed enthusiasm around clouds, virtualization and software-defined everything has led to some unfortunate side effects. One is the suspension of disbelief [...]
Some experts say there is a thin line between disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP). The first is owned by the computer operations or IT department, while the second is usually owned by the [...]
If you asked a group of ten or more IT practitioners or business people what cloud computing is, they would probably give ten different answers. Each would have an answer consistent with his own specific [...]
If you want to send chills up the spine of cloud vendors and consumers alike, just say the word Nirvanix. Once declared a comer in the “new” world of infrastructure (storage, backup, archive...) as a [...]
For 2014 and the foreseeable future, trends in business continue to favor increased dependency on information technology. Truth be told, while some of the economic circumstances that accompanied the Great Recession have begun to recede, [...]
The word disaster should not be thought of as literal in the term “Disaster Recovery Planning,” but instead as more of a generic term for “downtime.” And, no business owner likes downtime, because time lost [...]
In the preponderance of the organizations we support, a key impediment to effective Disaster Recovery is the fact that it is an afterthought in the system lifecycle – rather than a component of the overall [...]
Who really owns your business computers and devices and their contents? It’s hard to escape the push for social networking. TV anchors brag about their Twitter files. Facebook and MySpace are in head-tohead competition to [...]
We’ve all seen data deduplication quickly evolve as one of the hottest topics within the industry. And why wouldn’t it be? After all, any technology that eliminates unneeded copies of the same identical data would [...]