Pure Storage

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Cybersecurity Month’s Key Objectives in 2024 This year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month has identified some key behaviors to help individuals and organizations bolster resilience: Using strong passwords and a password manager. This simple yet often overlooked aspect of identity management is everyone’s responsibility. NIST CSF 2.0—

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BMC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A critical process called Business Continuity Management (BCM), not many organizations sadly have these programs in place. However, due to current needs, many CEO’s and management teams are wishing they did and are now seeing the importance of implementing such systems.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management The government recently announced the official end of the COVID pandemic. The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. In one respect, COVID continues to distort people’s approach to risk.

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PagerDuty

JULY 30, 2024

The recent global outage has shown just how fragile IT systems can be. With mounting pressure to deliver seamless customer experiences, GenAI and automation present an opportunity to manage risk more effectively, by ensuring responders have the right information to restore services quickly.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Topic: Taking a risk-based approach to Contract Management. Managing these changes can be a full-time job, and it’s more important for businesses to rely on third party vendors to help them achieve their goals than ever before. Given the number of contracts they were in charge of managing at the time, they needed help.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This eliminates the complicated and time-consuming process of planning and executing multiple workload outages while data is moved and then cut over to the new array. The second benefit is the mitigated operational risk of an in-place stateless controller upgrade.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a result, businesses were on an ever-revolving turntable of purchasing new arrays, installing them, migrating data, juggling weekend outages, and managing months-long implementations. For our early customers, it has meant a decade without the hassles of migrations, storage refreshes, weekend outages, or application outages.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

A clear definition of “Resolved” is critical for reliable metrics and effective incident management, but having the ability to filter and adjust the granularity of metrics such as MTTR is required to maintain its accuracy and usefulness. When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services.

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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. DRaaS helps mitigate this risk by ensuring data availability and regulatory compliance.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While no one is immune to cybercrime, preparedness can significantly mitigate its impact on an organization. To improve cyber defenses, the adoption of an incident management system has become essential. Digital transformation enhances an organization’s ability to manage cyber threats while optimizing business operations.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Risk can never be eliminated but it can be mitigated. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how organizations can get started using Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to reduce their exposure and improve their resilience. Risk can never be completely removed, but it can be mitigated. ERM is all about reducing.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. Managing more than 1.2 Managing more than 1.2 The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. 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.

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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. Managing vendor relationships often falls to a procurement, finance, or legal team. So much of vendor management is about contracts, payment terms, and SLAs.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Businesses can scale protection based on their evolving needs, keeping costs manageable. Texas winter storm (2021): An energy company in Texas maintained critical operations by using remote data centers and cloud services to ensure data availability despite local power outages.

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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! This helps customers mitigate data loss and downtime, as they can now detect an anomaly within seconds, then protect and recover within just a few minutes.

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Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

The storm marks another overactive hurricane season officially underway in the United States, prompting business leaders and property owners to ensure they are adequately prepared from an insurance and risk management perspective. Some key recommendations to consider before and after any hurricane include: Preventative Measures.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To navigate these challenges, organizations must implement robust IT incident management strategies. This blog offers a comprehensive guide on best practices, communication readiness, and the critical role of technology in incident management.

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PagerDuty

JULY 30, 2024

The recent global outage has shown just how fragile IT systems can be. With mounting pressure to deliver seamless customer experiences, GenAI and automation present an opportunity to manage risk more effectively, by ensuring responders have the right information to restore services quickly.

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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

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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. Threat and vulnerability management. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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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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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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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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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. Step 1: Gain the Support of Senior Management Without management support and engagement, it is difficult for a BC program to provide value and succeed in its goals. Team Member(s).

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JANUARY 25, 2017

Cash as an Risk Mitigation and Business Resiliency Enabler How does cash enable Business Resiliency? The recovery site manager is running out of coffee (coffee!!), Cash can also be a critical enabler of Business Continuity and Resiliency. Here's why! Gas stations are closed or running on generators. food, water and office supplies.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Easier management. Simplicity powered by a unified, AI-driven management system and proactive support that lets your IT pros devote their attention to innovation and growth. This enables a unified experience across on-premises, hosted, and public cloud environments, all managed with the simplicity and ease of cloud services.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

With challenges ranging from major technical issues to cloud service interruptions and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, modern day businesses must take a proactive approach to incident management. In the dynamic and unpredictable world of incident management, “known” and “repeatable” resolutions are few and far between.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Threat intelligence empowers organizations to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with threats of all types, thus helping them protect their assets, reputation, and business continuity. The reason for monitoring threats is to enable the organization to take educated actions to avoid them or mitigate their impact.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 12, 2024

Setting the Stage: An Overview PagerDuty on Tour Sydney was meticulously designed to showcase the latest advancements in digital operations, with a special focus on automation, AI, and incident management. Panel session with Louise, Doug, and Dave, moderated by Natalie, discussing mitigating risk through incident management transformation.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective.

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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. While business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience teams tackled the pandemic and other business disruptors throughout the year, many did so with small teams.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As technology becomes more integral to education, maintaining efficient, secure IT operations while ensuring 24/7 availability presents new challenges for institutions to manage. The following key benefits demonstrate how this technology can change how higher education approaches IT infrastructure management.

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On Solve

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Staying ahead of it all requires thorough risk management. In addition, about half of respondents indicated they aren’t proactively mitigating risk, yet only 38 percent say their current risk management strategies are effectively measured or optimized today. Pretty ambitious, wouldn’t you say?

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to be compliant and mitigate the impact of disruption through a robust incident management strategy begins with understanding the most critical business functions that comprise your organization. Respond You will also need to have a strategic incident management process in place.

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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. They’re managed by the Kubernetes control plane. Deploying Zerto for Kubernetes helps prevent and mitigate these disruptions.

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