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The Outrage or Lack Thereof: Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage

Fusion Risk Management

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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There is No Excuse for Ignoring Backup and Disaster Recovery

NexusTek

During the week of August 25-31, when Hurricane Harvey [1] made landfall in Texas, retail sales in Houston dropped 59% compared to the previous week, and total consumer spending fell 42.5%. Following Hurricane Katrina, about 19,000 New Orleans-area businesses shut down forever (source: Census Bureau).

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Tips for Managing Third-Party Risk in Health Care

Reciprocity

The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. Does the vendor outsource any IT services to fourth parties that can increase risk exposure? Does the vendor perform penetration testing and vulnerability scans?