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How Pure Protect //DRaaS Shields Your Business from Natural Disasters 

Pure Storage

Texas winter storm (2021): An energy company in Texas maintained critical operations by using remote data centers and cloud services to ensure data availability despite local power outages.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced the shutdown of a major U.S. Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Responding to a Cyber Extortion Attack When a business becomes a victim of cyber extortion, quick and effective action can significantly mitigate the damage.

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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report

Castellan

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. As pandemic impact lingered, some organizations had disruptive events that happened 10 times or more within the year such as protests, software issues, civil unrest, supply chain disruptions, and power outages.

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CrowdStrike: Lessons on the Importance of Contracts, Insurance and Business Continuity

IT Governance BC

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. billion (about £4.2

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The financial impact of climate change on organizations

everbridge

Climate-related disasters are only increasing, which is in turn increasing the costs associated without proper mitigation steps. For example, in February 2021 a severe winter storm hit Texas , causing widespread power outages and water shortages. billion in damage to physical assets in the US alone.”

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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Examples include the February 2021 winter storm across Texas and the southern United States, which killed at least 290 people and caused $196.5 The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort.

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Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy

Pure Storage

A Spotlight on Critical Infrastructure The pipeline disruption of 2021 taught us a valuable lesson: Taking out one critical infrastructure provider can have a devastating ripple effect. Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages.