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How Financial Entities Can Turn IT Outages Into Strategic Advantages by Laura Chu

PagerDuty

IT outages are a growing concern for financial entities, threatening both operational resilience and regulatory compliance. By addressing common challenges and adopting forward-thinking strategies, organizations can turn outages into stepping stones for achieving operational excellence.

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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages. In many parts of the world, winter weather and Acts of Nature can impact operations from commuting to shipping to increased chance of power outages. Closing the books.

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Will 911 Survive Modernization?

Disaster Zone Podcast

Disasters range from earthquakes, cyberattacks and wildfires to local power outages, an ice storm or a white powder delivered to your door. Most Reliable: According to an audit report conducted by independent third party umlaut containing crowdsourced data for user experience including task completion collected from November 2021 to May 2022.

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Why Microsoft Azure Active Directory Backup Is Needed

Zerto

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself. Customers, as well as internal team members, were severely impacted.

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5 IT Myths That Are Costing You Time and Money by Constant Fischer

PagerDuty

The Reality: Unlike financial records, which should be centralized for compliance and auditing, incident records dont always need to live in a single system. Whats often referred to as an incident can range from routine IT tasks (like increasing system capacity) to major outages.

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Customer Value Story: How to Know What You Don’t Know

LogisManager

This AI-powered feature was a good fit for this client as it positioned them to significantly streamline their due diligence process and keep an audit trail of their work. What percentage of their daily operations would be impacted if this vendor had an outage? How much sensitive information does this vendor have access to?

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.