Pure Storage

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) encourages security and IT teams to work together to reduce the impact of attacks and even prevent outages and permanent data loss. NIST CSF 2.0—

Cybersecurity 131

Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience Architecture Sports 131

Zerto

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! Among today’s threats, hardware failures and human error account for a major portion of downtime events.

Outage 110

Outage Disaster Recovery Airlines Cyber Resilience 110

Zerto

JULY 30, 2024

This caused a major outage in many sectors, including transportation, and CrowdStrike customers scrambled to roll back their systems or implement a workaround to restore systems to working order. We cannot prevent 100% of outages, but collectively we can prevent most and mitigate the impact of those that occur.

Outage 52

Outage Backup Disaster Recovery Failover 52

Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Aside from data backup and replication considerations, IT organizations and teams also need to design robust disaster recovery (DR) plans and test these DR plans frequently to ensure quick and effective recovery from planned and unplanned outage events when they occur. The right technologies and resources can help you achieve this.

Resilience 98

Resilience Cyber Resilience Outage Failover 98

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Recent heavy rainfall in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Indiana caused deadly flash floods and thousands of power outages. Preparing and planning ahead of disasters help keep families safe during emergencies and long after an event has passed. These resources are free and can be easily shared.

Hazard 77

Hazard Emergency Planning Risk Reduction Pandemic 77

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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. During an event, use of devices often diverges from the norm. Risk assessment. Remote work polices and oversight.

Security 103

Security Outage Vulnerability Cybersecurity 103

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies.

Mitigation 95

Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 95

everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While no one is immune to cybercrime, preparedness can significantly mitigate its impact on an organization. Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s capacity to sustain operations and continue delivering to customers during a critical cyber event, whether it’s an internal disruption or an external threat.

Cyber Resilience 98

Cyber Resilience Resilience Cybersecurity Outage 98

PagerDuty

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This ensures that escalation policies are in place and configured correctly–mitigating risk and accelerating resolution during response. Operations Center Modernization Our latest innovations help teams focus on high-impact incidents, applying automation to proactively resolve issues before they escalate into outages.

Resilience 59

Resilience Mitigation Outage Alert 59

MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. It does so because recency bias makes recent past events loom the largest in people’s expectations of the future. Assess the residual risk after you have developed plans and mitigation strategies.

Pandemic 98

Pandemic Mitigation Risk Management Strategic 98

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 64

Mitigation Outage Resilience Strategic 64

Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This information will be important after an event when determining if there is too much snow on the roof. Discuss the systems exposure to winter weather and potential mitigation options. Avoiding a power outage can save a day or two of business interruption. Plan for emergency snow removal in event of heavy accumulation.

Insurance 129

Insurance Insurance Outage Alert 129

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. Mitigating these unplanned disruptions requires a combination of careful planning, proactive monitoring, and a quick response to issues as they arise.

Failover 96

Failover Disaster Recovery Application Outage 96

Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. Current and Future Focus for Business Continuity Events. And unfortunately, for those both prepared and those unprepared, many events in 2020 weren’t just one-and-done.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Management Pandemic Outage 52

IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

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

Business Continuity 91

Business Continuity Insurance Insurance Outage 91

Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events. Your Data is Your Responsibility.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Outage Backup Application 98

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage. The end of the 20 th century saw the increasing importance of IT, the rise of globalization, and preparations for the potential disruptions of the Y2K bug.

BCM 105

BCM Business Continuity Resilience Outage 105

BMC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Creating well-structured tools and documentation for operations following a number of uncontrollable events as well as continually updating such plans can greatly save the future of your organization in the case something does occur. Every framework is subject to need maintenance and continual review.

BCM 52

BCM Business Continuity Management Impact Analysis 52

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JANUARY 25, 2017

Cash as an Risk Mitigation and Business Resiliency Enabler How does cash enable Business Resiliency? Think of a typical worst-case scenario: there’s a regional event, power is spotty, the ATM’s are down. Cash can also be a critical enabler of Business Continuity and Resiliency. Here's why!

Outage 100

Outage Resilience Business Continuity Continuity Planning 100

Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), Cyber resilience describes an organization’s ability to mitigate, respond to and recover from cyber threats and attacks such as ransomware. What Is Cyber Resilience? What Does a Cyber Resilience Strategy Include?

Resilience 98

Resilience Cyber Resilience Cybersecurity Malware 98

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. A good BC strategy can help you swiftly recover your critical business processes in the event of a disruption, identify gaps that need to be remediated, and determine what training is necessary.

Business Continuity 98

Business Continuity BCM Disaster Recovery Outage 98

PagerDuty

AUGUST 12, 2024

On July 31st, 2024, Sydney played host to a landmark event in the realm of digital operations – PagerDuty on Tour. This event brought together industry leaders, technology innovators, and business executives for a day of insightful discussions, practical demonstrations, and valuable networking opportunities.

Entertainment 59

Entertainment Outage Banking Resilience 59

Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives. In the event of an incident, organizations can easily recover their data from any point in time, reducing the potential for data loss and minimizing downtime. This minimizes the risk of data loss and enables entities to achieve lower Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).

Education 96

Education Disaster Recovery Failover Outage 96

PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

Using an automation orchestration tool to enable event-driven automation, organisations can empower on-call responders with immediate access to automated runbooks, personally crafted by subject matter experts. They can do this by having automation orchestration capability that is event-driven, where the event in question is the incident.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Audit Vulnerability 52

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

Mitigation Outage Resilience Strategic 52

PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

Evaluation 72

Evaluation Outage Marketing Mitigation 72

PagerDuty

AUGUST 12, 2024

On July 31st, 2024, Sydney played host to a landmark event in the realm of digital operations – PagerDuty on Tour. This event brought together industry leaders, technology innovators, and business executives for a day of insightful discussions, practical demonstrations, and valuable networking opportunities.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Outage Banking Resilience 52

Zerto

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has developed a set of prioritized mitigation strategies known as the Essential Eight to safeguard internet-connected information technology networks. These strategies, outlined by the ASD, form a comprehensive framework to mitigate cybersecurity incidents effectively.

Cybersecurity 75

Cybersecurity Resilience Backup Disaster Recovery 75

BMC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Creating well-structured tools and documentation for operations following a number of uncontrollable events as well as continually updating such plans can greatly save the future of your organization in the case something does occur. Every framework is subject to need maintenance and continual review.

BCM 98

BCM Business Continuity Management Impact Analysis 98

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. RPOs establish how much data an organization can stand to lose in the event of a disaster. Incompatible Infrastructure.

Data Recovery 98

Data Recovery Disaster Recovery Backup Outage 98

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. It is a strategy designed to help businesses continue operating with minimal disruption during a disruptive event. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan.

BCP 95

BCP Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Continuity Planning 95

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

This helps them prepare for disaster events, which is one of the biggest challenges they can face. Such events include natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as inadvertent or unauthorized modifications. Scope of impact for a disaster event.

Disaster Recovery 101

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Backup 101

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.

BCM 98

BCM All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard 98

everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

According to the 2022 Navigating Climate Threats and Proactive Mechanisms to Achieve Business Climate Resilience report commissioned by Everbridge, “record numbers of severe weather events attributed to climate change—such as hurricanes, droughts, extreme temperatures, and flooding—have resulted in more than $2.2

Mitigation 52

Mitigation Vulnerability Outage Resilience 52

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Surging ransomware threats elevate the importance of data privacy and protection through capabilities such as encryption and data immutability in object storage – capabilities that protect sensitive data and enable teams to get back to business fast in the event of such an attack.

Backup 119

Backup Disaster Recovery Application Outage 119

Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As such, organizational leaders must thoroughly understand these terms: their similarities and differences, and how to leverage them to safeguard their business operations from threats and disruptive events. It also documents existing strategies and measures already in place to mitigate the impact of said risks.

Disaster Recovery 52

Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Outage Business Continuity 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

We used AWS Backup to simplify backup and cross-Region copying of Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) , and Amazon RDS to mitigate business continuity risks. Decoupling integrations using event-driven design patterns. We observed that database retries were overwhelming the database in the case of latency jitters.

Architecture 74

Architecture Resilience Backup Application 74