Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Creating one involves developing and testing a clear incident response plan for responding to cyber extortion attempts, including communication protocols and steps for recovery. Heres a step-by-step guide to respond to such an attack: 1.

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PagerDuty

JULY 30, 2024

The recent global outage has shown just how fragile IT systems can be. By integrating GenAI features into the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, these enhancements are designed to help our customers drive operational resilience, mitigate risk, and scale the business with fast time to value and high return on effort. Not an eligible customer?

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Discuss the systems exposure to winter weather and potential mitigation options. Avoiding a power outage can save a day or two of business interruption. Select a heating system repair service before an unexpected outage or maintenance issue arises mid-season. Winterize your landscaping and irrigation. Maintain your HVAC system.

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everbridge

MARCH 6, 2025

Organizations with robust resilience frameworks, including impact tolerance thresholds, not only reduce the frequency of incidents but also mitigate their cost. Identify critical dependencies Identify dependencies on information and communication technology, functions/processes, supply chain and critical third parties. million in 2024.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. The company that wants to protect its future continuously assesses and mitigates its risks across all five of these areas. Assess the residual risk after you have developed plans and mitigation strategies.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

They wanted to not only be able to eliminate manual and duplicative efforts wherever possible, but as a regional franchise within a larger, worldwide financial institution, it was also important that they had the ability to easily communicate internally and generate robust reports to upper management. How many employees rely on the vendor?

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Zerto

APRIL 13, 2023

These disruptions range from minor inconveniences to major outages and can have a significant impact on the availability and performance of your applications. These issues can prevent communication between nodes and lead to disruptions in application availability and performance.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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On Solve

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here are five ways manufacturing companies can get the most out of a business continuity program with the help of a critical communications product. A critical communications system with mass notification capability can enable your organization to maintain essential business functions and avoid a lapse in service or production.

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PagerDuty

JULY 30, 2024

The recent global outage has shown just how fragile IT systems can be. By integrating GenAI features into the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, these enhancements are designed to help our customers drive operational resilience, mitigate risk, and scale the business with fast time to value and high return on effort. Not an eligible customer?

Mitigation 52

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PagerDutys AI agents will include: Agentic Site Reliability Engineer: Will identify and classify operational issues, surfacing important context such as related or past issues and guiding responders with recommendations to accelerate resolution, thus mitigating business risk caused by operational disruption and enhancing the customer experience.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. During a vendor incident, though, the teams integrating directly with the vendor’s products need to be in the loop for vendor communications. This dependence has brought risk.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Prepare My Business for an Emergency.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This blog offers a comprehensive guide on best practices, communication readiness, and the critical role of technology in incident management. Understanding the impact of IT incidents Every day, operational issues such as IT outages and data breaches disrupt business operations.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. You can also develop individual department strategies and actions for recovery and continued operations during an emergency or outage event.) BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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NexusTek

MARCH 4, 2020

Within your BCP, a theorized list of implications that a peril would have on your business and ways to mitigate the impact of peril or outage-induced downtime are vital to the success of your plan. Often, email communication is not a sufficient means of communication in certain instances (i.e.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Every organization faces unique risks, and evaluating your risks is an important part of determining a disaster recovery testing template for your organization that includes the frequency that DR testing should be performed to help mitigate those risks. Setting Up Your Disaster Recovery Testing Template: Full vs. Partial. Limited personnel.

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eBRP

JANUARY 10, 2019

In the IT realm, CIO’s and CISO’s now focus their efforts on mitigating those risks, and planning responses to potential data breaches, malware and other cyber threats. Cyber disruptions – and their impact on both reputations and profitability – have risen to the top of nearly every recent risk study.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

Inter-Pod communications run the risk of being attacked. A Pod can communicate with another Pod by directly addressing its IP address, but the recommended way is to use Services. In Kubernetes, each Pod has an IP address. A Service is a set of Pods, which can be reached by a single, fixed DNS name or IP address.

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PagerDuty

MAY 22, 2024

AI-generated Status Updates: This feature generates an audience-specific status update draft with the click of a button, saving time communicating with stakeholders during an incident. Mitigate risk with comprehensive incident management workflows to guide remediation and improvement Incidents are inevitable.

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PagerDuty

JULY 31, 2024

They can be large, messy, and complex, like the major outage we saw recently. When incidents occur, mobilizing and coordinating responders is crucial to restoring service, protecting the customer experience, and mitigating business risks. Or they can be somewhere in between.

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Online Computers

MARCH 10, 2023

These may include natural disasters, cyberattacks, power outages, supply chain disruptions, and more. This entails creating a detailed response plan for each potential risk identified, including the procedures and strategies that need to be put in place to mitigate the impacts of a particular risk.

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Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

Rounding out the top 10 most-pressing events organizations are most concerned about: Cyber-attacks: 88% Power outages: 76% Data breaches: 74% Network/communication outages: 58% Pandemic/diseases: 53% Computer viruses: 52% Brand/social media damage: 51% Hurricanes: 47% Fires (not natural) 46% Earthquakes: 40%.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies. The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. Especially vulnerable populations.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 20, 2024

Global IT disruptions and outages are becoming the new normal, testing the operational resilience of businesses everywhere. For instance, if an outage occurs, having a unified view can help teams quickly identify and resolve issues, minimizing the impact on customer experience.

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everbridge

APRIL 18, 2022

An incident postmortem is a structured review process following an outage or event that caused a significant disruption. Act quickly and effectively mitigate disruptions. The contribution of response analytics to an incident postmortem allows for a much clearer understanding of:?.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

” The BCP is a master document that details your organization’s entire prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery protocols for all kinds of threats and disasters. At a high level, some of the key elements of a BCP are: Information about and/or references to BC governance, policies and standards.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

At the same time, a new need has developed: one for a place remote workers can go if they are no longer able to work at home (due to a power outage or whatever it might be). Nowadays BC is usually a unit unto itself, and in progressive organizations, it tends to be part of the Risk department (since BC is all about risk mitigation).

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Central to this imperative is the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)—an integrated system of smart meters, communications networks, and data management systems that allow for two-way communication between a utility company and its customers. This helps you identify and mitigate energy waste, potentially lowering your bills.

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everbridge

JULY 23, 2024

The value of a comprehensive solution An all-in-one end-to-end platform is designed to ensure that organizations can anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover from critical events. Minimizing communication errors during crises enhances the accuracy and reliability of information, which is crucial for effective incident management.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Now, PagerDuty together with AWS can help more financial service organizations take full advantage of cloud-scale while up-leveling their digital operations management through automation, DevOps, service ownership, and streamlined communication. . Change Was Imminent. PagerDuty + AWS .

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Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

This plan should include everything from the identified incident response team and the established internal and external communication protocols to the selected offsite workspace and disaster recovery plan. From a property perspective, ensure that your buildings and structures are adequately protected to mitigate potential damage.

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PagerDuty

MAY 14, 2024

A different kind of partnership One key barrier to Intelehealth’s progress was the platform’s persistent and time-consuming technical outages and team mobility issues, further straining their resources.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new regulation that creates a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk management framework for the European Union (EU) financial sector. What Is DORA?

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Online Computers

JANUARY 20, 2022

Its purpose is to ensure that critical functions can be restored quickly in case of unplanned events or emergencies, such as fires, floods, terrorist attacks, power outages, or data breaches. In other words, mitigation is an important strategy when developing a BCP.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. During a vendor incident, though, the teams integrating directly with the vendor’s products need to be in the loop for vendor communications. This dependence has brought risk.

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