IT Governance BC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

If we know that security incidents are a matter of when, not if, how should organisations approach risk management? Suppose youve identified a risk, and youve implemented a control to mitigate it. This then informs the amount of effort youd put into freeing people from the gaze of their manager and possible repercussions.

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Incident Management Transformation Building on our recent launch, we’re excited to introduce additional updates that elevate your incident management capabilities , helping teams minimize disruptions, and strengthen customer trust. Phased rollout has begun for all incident management plans.

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everbridge

MARCH 6, 2025

There are many metrics that can be used to measure what could or would cause harm and unlike broader risk management strategies, which aim to prevent disruptions entirely, impact tolerances acknowledge that incidents are inevitable. According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach alone globally was $4.88 million in 2024.

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Pure Storage

MAY 8, 2025

A localized outage requires a different response than a full-scale ransomware event. COCC , a fintech company serving community banks and credit unions, uses Pure1 integrated with Splunk to reduce security response time and strengthen cyber defenses, allowing their SOC team to focus on protecting clients rather than managing infrastructure.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 23, 2025

Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam by Pure Storage Blog Summary Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston experienced an unplanned outage. Theres nothing fun about dealing with an unplanned outage.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From bloated IT budgets to unplanned downtime and inefficient incident management, these hidden costs can drain your revenue, eroding customer trust, and exposing your company to financial penalties. Whether its a website outage during a major sale or a factory shutdown due to a cyberattack, the costs of downtime go far beyond lost revenue.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PagerDutys AI agents will include: Agentic Site Reliability Engineer: Will identify and classify operational issues, surfacing important context such as related or past issues and guiding responders with recommendations to accelerate resolution, thus mitigating business risk caused by operational disruption and enhancing the customer experience.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2025

To build a robust SaaS backup strategy, start by giving IT teams full visibility into the apps being used, so they can proactively secure, manage, and back up critical data. By centralizing both SaaS and network management, IT teams will expand their data visibility and safeguard this often overlooked but critical data.”

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 15, 2025

In 2024, we introduced capabilities that empowered operations teams to mitigate risks, protect customer trust, and improve business outcomes. From managing global outages to addressing complex digital operations, the PagerDuty Operations Cloud enabled organizations to respond faster, work smarter, and build operational resilience.

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Zerto

MARCH 5, 2025

By functioning as a standardized blueprint, they outline the best practices to approach risk management and help businesses maintain resilience in the face of growing threats. CIS Controls: The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls are a prioritized set of actions designed to mitigate the most common cyberattacks. NISTs 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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Erwood Group

MAY 13, 2025

AI in crisis managment AI In Crisis Management and the Future of Preparedness AI is revolutionizing how businesses, organizations and crisis managers handle crises, from natural disasters to cyber-attacks. Crisis Communication: AI monitors media to manage reputation, crucial during PR crises ( Capestart ).

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PagerDuty

APRIL 21, 2025

Building operational resilience has never been more critical to overcome and anticipate the next outage. PagerDutys AI agents augment and guide human expertise to dramatically improve efficiency, mitigate the customer impact of downtime, and accelerate the pace of innovation.

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Pure Storage

JULY 16, 2025

Dealing with bottlenecks and managing the environment becomes increasingly complex and costly. The Quiet Engine Room Driving a $200 Billion Market Gartner projects the global database management system market will surge to $203.6 billion by 2027, expanding at a 16.8% That growth isn’t only reshaping database software.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Mitigating this factor will yield dividends for any organization seeking to reduce Risk. Here’s why: Humans are the Cog in Risk Management and Due Diligence Risk Management by its very nature is non-deterministic and heuristic. Why are humans the prime point of failure? Machines do not have hubris.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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BCM METRICS

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. government has concluded that climate change and extreme weather are raising the incidence of power outages. The post Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage appeared first on BCMMETRICS. Meanwhile, […].

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Disaster Recovery Journal

JANUARY 14, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas AlertMedia , the fastest-growing emergency mass notification software provider in the world, has improved how organizations manage and communicate emergencies. Our customers needed a better way to manage the lifecycle of an emergency , said Brian Cruver , CEO of AlertMedia.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

JANUARY 14, 2020

 AlertMedia , the fastest-growing emergency mass notification software  provider in the world, has improved how organizations manage and communicate emergencies. Our customers needed a better way to manage the lifecycle of an emergency ,â?? said Brian Cruver , CEO of AlertMedia. About AlertMedia.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 9, 2024

Eradicating Change Management Outages with Pure Professional Services by Pure Storage Blog Executives who invest in Pure Storage technologies don’t do so just for the advanced features—they’re also looking for the assurance of uninterrupted operations. What Are Change Management Outages?

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is what it is, but residual risk can be managed and reduced.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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