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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Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then. On December 7, 2021, a major outage in the form of a DNS disruption in the North Virginia AWS region disrupted many online services.

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Outage Disaster Recovery Failover Resilience 98

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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Disaster Recovery Journal

JANUARY 14, 2020

With the launch of Event Pages,  organizations can instantly link their employees to critical information via a dedicated web page specific to an event. Instead of sending individual status updates to every affected employee, the company now manages one Event Page in our mobile or web application â?? How An Event Page Works.

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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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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

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We estimate that the July 19th outage (‘Outage’) cost our customers billions of dollars, with hourly downtime costs in the millions for some companies. 1 Unfortunately the consequences of the Outage were not always measured in mere hours, as the residual impact reverberated for many days after the main event.

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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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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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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

PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pressure to control costs, coupled with the larger business impact of outages, makes balancing efficiency and resilience even more difficult. How much revenue is lost during each outage? Outages are also trust erosion events for your brand, so there are other intangibles to consider besides revenue.

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Outage Resilience Evaluation Security 52

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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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How can leaders handle a surge of inquiries during an IT outage? Outages are inevitable, so the focus should be on how well the company manages them and communicates with both internal stakeholders and customers. Support is part of a company-wide function, and handling a surge of inquiries ties back to preparedness.

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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

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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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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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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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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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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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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Cyber Resilience Outage Resilience Architecture 115

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 90

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Outage data: Real-time updates on power outages and service interruptions facilitate quicker response times and improved reliability. Real-time communications with customers: Sends messages to consumers about demand response events and encourages reduced usage during peak times to help stabilize the grid.

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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

Pure Storage

AUGUST 2, 2024

This adds up to millions of dollars in losses for larger companies during a single outage. Downtime can also lead to: Missed opportunities: During an outage, businesses are unable to capitalize on potential sales or leads. Downtime events can significantly erode customer trust, leading to long-term consequences.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Producing Engaging BCP Scenarios The key to a successful BCP exercise lies in the scenario’s design—it must be fresh, relevant, and plausible: Fresh : To encourage participant engagement, we move beyond overused scenarios like fires or power outages and instead craft unique situations that challenge teams to think outside the box.

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Business Continuity BCP Outage All-Hazards 52

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

VOX Veritas

MARCH 15, 2018

What really happens when the cloud goes down and how do you protect your critical business applications in such an event? Learn about the anatomy of a cloud outage and best practices to help your business ensure maximum uptime against all odds.

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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 114

CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. Have alternatives in the event of utility outages All businesses and organizations are reliant on utilities.

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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

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

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For my current client, I first considered this system’s potential after a hypothetical hurricane or extreme weather event. While Aruba has not faced a severe hurricane in living memory, such a system could still be valuable after an event causing widespread damage.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When a critical event occurs, a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) documents the procedures and resources each department within an organization will use to keep the business impact to a minimum. Utility outages. When a critical event occurs, the responsibility of response may land on anyone from a local facility manager to the CSO.

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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.

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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.

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