Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s been interesting to see the accepting attitude of customers that a disruption as large scale as the CrowdStrike outage would occur; ire and blame seems to have only been aimed at individual firms when those organisations have failed to revert to manual or alternative processes and recover within similar time frames to their peers.

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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.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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Outage Alert Resilience Failover 52

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. There is an order of magnitude difference between the two.

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Disaster Recovery Outage BCM Application 111

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. The post An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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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.

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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. Find information that can help medical providers with their emergency preparedness needs.

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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—

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Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience Architecture Sports 131

PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Event-driven automation is a powerful approach to managing enterprise IT environments, allowing systems to automatically react to enterprise events (Observability / Monitoring / Security / Social / Machine) and reducing or removing the need for manual intervention. Guard rails can be easily added to prevent accidental overscaling.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Undoubtedly, VMware Explore stands out as one of my favorite events of the year. While basking in the lively atmosphere of the event, one dominant theme echoed throughout our booth discussions – ransomware. While basking in the lively atmosphere of the event, one dominant theme echoed throughout our booth discussions – ransomware.

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Acronis

MAY 19, 2022

In the event of a sudden and unexpected disruption, from a power outage or natural disaster to equipment failure or system crash, the consequences can be catastrophic. This underlines the compelling case for MSPs to offer clients a way to maintain business continuity if the worst should happen.

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Disaster Recovery Outage Business Continuity Backup 98

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This cloud-based solution ensures data security, minimizes downtime, and enables rapid recovery, keeping your operations resilient against hurricanes, wildfires, and other unexpected events. In the event of a disaster, businesses can switch to their cloud-based VMs within minutes.

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Disaster Recovery Failover Cyber Resilience Resilience 121

Virtual Corporation

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If your enterprise has a disaster recovery plan, you’re on the right track, but these plans don’t always go into the details of how your business will operate and regain access to your data during an outage.

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Outsourcing BCP Continuity Planning Business Continuity 97

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.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Before a winter weather event. Following a winter weather event. Monitor the weather. Find a reliable source for severe weather information. Follow the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center ( WPC ) on Facebook or Twitter and your local NWS office. Tune in to local news often when winter weather is forecast.

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Alert Outage Insurance Insurance 145

everbridge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For those in the manufacturing industry, critical events threaten financial loss due to unplanned downtime, reduced factory utilization rates, lost revenue, and even employees put at risk. With so much reliance on electricity and computers, one outage can wreak havoc on your processes. Manufacturing Industry-Specific Dangers.

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Manufacturing Continuity Planning Business Continuity BCP 97

everbridge

JULY 20, 2023

A Q&A with Brian Toolan , Everbridge VP Global Public Safety Talk about the trend in heat events that are impacting state and local governments. With power outages, you now have people who are oxygen dependent, who don’t have access to their oxygen because the power’s been turned off.

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Management Vulnerability Command Center Communications 52

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.

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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.

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Security Outage Vulnerability Cybersecurity 103

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.

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BCM Business Continuity Resilience Outage 105

Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This information will be important after an event when determining if there is too much snow on the roof. 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. Prevent plumbing from freezing.

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Insurance Insurance Outage Alert 129

LogisManager

JULY 30, 2024

This wasn’t just a blip; it was the largest outage in IT history. This catastrophic event is a prime example of a colossal failure in risk management at multiple levels and underscores the dangers of third-party contagion. Nonexistent : The manual fixes and lingering outages showed just how unprepared everyone was.

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Risk Management Management Outage Banking 98

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. million Windows devices.

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Business Continuity Insurance Insurance Outage 92

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.

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Resilience Cyber Resilience Outage Failover 98

everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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. Adaptability and agility are key components of cyber resilience, allowing businesses to respond effectively to such events.

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Cyber Resilience Resilience Cybersecurity Outage 98

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.

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Disaster Recovery Outage Backup Application 98

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Outage Airlines Consulting BCM 97

On Solve

JANUARY 14, 2022

Effective business continuity is measured by an organization’s ability to continue operations and maintain solvency, regardless of critical events and the circumstances – both expected and unknown – that lead to them. Confluence is inevitable: Prepare for interconnected critical events. What does it take? CXOVoice.com, April 2019 5.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 26, 2022

All this effort spent on sifting through noise, processing events, and gathering context results in a lot of wasted time. . That’s why we’ve launched Event Orchestration, which became generally available to our Event Intelligence and Digital Operations customers on Monday. . The first is noise reduction.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and greater loss of data in the event of a disaster as compared to other strategies as shown in Figure 1. DR Strategies. OpenSearch Service.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Management Outage 99

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.

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Business Continuity BCM Disaster Recovery Outage 98

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

One business outage may not only cripple a company’s operation, it might be a red flag to investors that the company might not be resilient enough to take a risk on. Companies with fragile processes are bound to struggle when those processes are broken by unforeseen events. Business Continuity is essential here!

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Business Continuity Risk Reduction Outage Marketing 100

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.

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Entertainment Outage Banking Resilience 59

Talkingpoint

MARCH 2, 2021

A single data breach, ransomware infection, equipment failure, or an unexpected power outage could quickly become a catastrophic event, especially when it […]. Data is piling up in organizations, challenging their IT staff’s ability to keep pace with security and backups.

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Disaster Recovery Outage Backup Security 69

PagerDuty

AUGUST 2, 2022

Does your heart sink a bit when you think about how much your rulesets have sprawled in order to manage your event processing needs? That’s why we released Event Orchestration earlier this year to help teams reduce the amount of manual work that goes into event management. What is Event Orchestration?

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Alert Outage Architecture Management 52

LogisManager

JULY 22, 2021

Their process for developing and updating their BCP initially involved holding in-person interviews with department heads to gather information about various impacts to their core processes in case of an outage: Who are their key team members? This lets them easily determine which processes need to be prioritized during an outage.

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