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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Threats against Critical Infrastructure Attackers often target essential servicessuch as power grids, water supplies, or transportation systemsthreatening severe disruption unless paid. Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. fuel pipeline, causing widespread disruptions.

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

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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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

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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CrowdStrike: Lessons on the Importance of Contracts, Insurance and Business Continuity

IT Governance BC

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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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies. The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. Especially vulnerable populations.

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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The financial impact of climate change on organizations

everbridge

Climate-related disasters are only increasing, which is in turn increasing the costs associated without proper mitigation steps. For example, in February 2021 a severe winter storm hit Texas , causing widespread power outages and water shortages. billion in damage to physical assets in the US alone.”