Pure Storage

JANUARY 8, 2025

These figures highlight the escalating financial risks associated with system outages, underscoring the importance of robust disaster recovery solutions like disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to mitigate potential losses. This setup minimizes the risk of prolonged downtime by providing a secure backup in the event of a regional issue.

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Disaster Recovery Mitigation Failover Resilience 104

everbridge

JULY 29, 2024

However, IT outages, as the one caused by a Crowdstrike update on July 19 th 2024, are inevitable and can disrupt business operations, leading to significant financial losses and reputational damage. Accelerated incident response and resolution for IT disruption One of the most critical aspects of managing IT outages is the speed of response.

Outage 59

Outage Alert Cyber Resilience Continual Improvement 59

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Use tools like SIEM (security information and event management) and SOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response) platforms. After a breach, outage, or data theft, the first priority is to get systems back online as quickly as possible. Access to data: Youre swimming in data from countless sources.

Insurance 104

Insurance Insurance Cyber Resilience Backup 104

PagerDuty

AUGUST 1, 2024

And ultimately, it’s not a matter of if you will have an outage, but of when. Before an outage… 1. During an outage… 3. Leverage our Change Events feature to view the most recent changes to your services (80% of incidents are the result of change events such as software deployments.) After an outage… 8.

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Outage Communications Alert Resilience 52

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.

Retail 142

Retail Continuity Planning Business Continuity BCP 142

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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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.

Outage 52

Outage Airlines Outsourcing Insurance 52

Pure Storage

MARCH 28, 2025

How to Set Up a Secure Isolated Recovery Environment (SIRE) by Pure Storage Blog If youve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, theres one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a secure isolated recovery environment (SIRE). Heres why you need a secure isolated recovery environment and how to set one up. Why Do You Need a SIRE?

Security 75

Security Backup Application Insurance 75

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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Outage Backup Disaster Recovery Failover 52

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.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Resilience Failover 52

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.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Resilience Failover 52

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.

Outage 52

Outage Communications Continual Improvement Management 52

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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Outage Airlines Backup Capacity 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

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.

Damage Assessment 52

Damage Assessment Outage Crisis Management Capacity 52

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

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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Hazard Emergency Planning Risk Reduction Pandemic 77

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 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.

Cyber Resilience 115

Cyber Resilience Outage Resilience Architecture 115

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.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Outage Business Continuity Backup 98

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.

Outsourcing 97

Outsourcing BCP Continuity Planning Business Continuity 97

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.

Alert 145

Alert Insurance Insurance Outage 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.

Manufacturing 97

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 15, 2025

From managing global outages to addressing complex digital operations, the PagerDuty Operations Cloud enabled organizations to respond faster, work smarter, and build operational resilience. These updates help teams prepare for future events by automating critical workflows and ensuring consistency.

Alert 52

Alert Outage Mitigation Resilience 52

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

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.

Insurance 129

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.

Risk Management 98

Risk Management Management Outage Airlines 98

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

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.

Cyber Resilience 98

Cyber Resilience Resilience Cybersecurity Outage 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.

Business Continuity 91

Business Continuity Insurance Insurance Outage 91

PagerDuty

JANUARY 23, 2025

Events like KubeCon highlight the need for ongoing learning, tooling, and collaboration to manage Kubernetes effectively. Whats often referred to as an incident can range from routine IT tasks (like increasing system capacity) to major outages. Treating all incidents the same way can lead to unnecessary complexity.

Audit 59

Audit Outage Capacity Strategic 59

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

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

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.

Business Continuity 98

Business Continuity Benchmark Consulting Outage 98

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.

Alert 52

Alert Outage Management 52

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.

Disaster Recovery 99

Disaster Recovery Backup Management Outage 99