Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish. Machines do not have hubris.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This involves assessing current platforms and technologies to maintain cybersecurity resilience and exploring the automation of manual processes. What is cyber resilience? Adaptability and agility are key components of cyber resilience, allowing businesses to respond effectively to such events.

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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.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In part one , we covered business resilience. In part two , we went over operational resilience and showed its slightly narrower scope and approach. In part three, we are going to look at a cornerstone of business resilience, IT resilience. What Is IT Resilience? How Do You Ensure IT Resilience?

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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. Find and implement specific recommendations, such as adding automation or enhancing team efficiencies, to boost operational resiliency. During an outage… 3. After an outage… 8. Why listen to PagerDuty?

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Once again the Diva has asked John Plodinec (Resource Technolgies) to review a new report on the topic of resilience. His report follows: Recently, Claire asked me to look at a new report Resilience in Action. The model allowed the team to determine how the citys power grid and system would respond to various outage scenarios.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three , in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), What Is Cyber Resilience?

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: Doing Our Part to #SecureOurWorld by Pure Storage Blog The 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us, and we’re taking the month to spotlight resources and insights to help you improve cyber resilience and build a culture of security. Let’s dig in. NIST CSF 2.0—

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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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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.

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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. Find and implement specific recommendations, such as adding automation or enhancing team efficiencies, to boost operational resiliency. During an outage… 3. After an outage… 8.

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PagerDuty

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By Debbie OBrien, Chief Communications Officer and Vice President of Global Social Impact at PagerDuty In today’s digitally-connected world, IT outages can be inconvenient at best and extremely challenging at worst. Whether its tomorrow or one year from now, IT outages are no longer a matter of “if” but “when.”

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Increases in physical and digital disruption, such as civil unrest, cyberattacks, severe weather events, and unplanned outages, have left many industries scrambling to secure a robust operational resilience strategy, including the cellular industry. What is Operational Resilience.

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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.

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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.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 28, 2024

Security Pros Share the Secret to Data Resilience by Blog Home Summary In a recent Tech Talk, experts from Presidio and Pure Storage discussed how enterprises can take advantage of their increasing amount of data while keeping it secure. These tiers can be things like snapshots, replication, and immutability.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” As you review the key objectives and recommendations, ask yourself: Is my security architecture resilient?

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IT Governance BC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And how to become resilient with ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 Unfortunately, even the most secure organisation can suffer an incident. This is where cyber resilience comes in. Cyber resilience combines cyber security with the ability to detect, respond to and recover from cyber incidents. How will you ensure operational resilience?

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. . These scenarios are what make organizations realize the important of true data protection solutions to remain resilient when facing ransomware attacks. Z4K’s new version includes new platforms, data mobility, and resilience for non-persistent applications.

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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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DRI Drive

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we bid farewell to 2023, here’s a look back at some of the big resilience stories and DRI milestones we covered this year.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to major technological disruptions, cloud service outages, and cybersecurity threats, businesses must be proactive and prepared. It’s not just about acknowledging the team’s value, it’s about actively empowering them to contribute to a resilient and strategically aligned organisation.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This cloud-based solution ensures data security, minimizes downtime, and enables rapid recovery, keeping your operations resilient against hurricanes, wildfires, and other unexpected events. Ensure your data, systems, and operations are protected with a comprehensive DRaaS and cyber resiliency strategy.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 12, 2023

A coalition of advocacy groups is suing the federal government’s disaster response agency, claiming it is making Puerto Rico less resilient to storms and more vulnerable to power outages by rebuilding the island’s old, unreliable power grid without properly assessing the environmental impacts or considering residents’ desire for renewable energy.

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everbridge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The year 2021 represented another historic period of resilience, during which businesses began to spring back from the pandemic lockdowns of 2020. In July 2021, to help organizations benchmark and reinforce their enterprise resilience, Everbridge rolled out the industry’s first CEM Certification Program.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 20, 2024

Global IT disruptions and outages are becoming the new normal, testing the operational resilience of businesses everywhere. However, leading companies are using automation to manage chaos, drive innovation, and build the operational resilience required for modern digital businesses.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Increased operational resilience : A quick response and recovery from IT incidents and outages help institutions mitigate risks associated with system outages or delays. The post Building Operational Resiliency in Higher Education with AIOps appeared first on PagerDuty.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Take, for example, an IT outage due to a cyberattack. Furthermore, a plan needs to be available to guide employees through a Plan B if an outage occurs. Discover Everbridge’s leadership in resilience and why it matters today. According to Gartner , the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. Learn More.

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DRI Drive

JANUARY 4, 2023

“Resilience experts have long recognized the inherent dangers to power grids, primarily a result of the usual […]. The post The Rise In Power Grid Attacks Leave Businesses With A New Variation On A Familiar Threat – Chloe Demrovsky for Forbes appeared first on DRI Drive.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But do these plans deliver operational resilience during the moment of truth? With the world becoming increasingly uncertain and risks proliferating, IT leaders must look beyond crisis management to be able to achieve operational resilience. Data center resilience.

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everbridge

JULY 23, 2024

The ability to navigate these critical events hinges on one key factor: resilience. Here, we explore why business continuity is essential to your end-to-end critical event management strategy and how comprehensive planning and preparedness can redefine organizational resilience.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution. Increase resiliency. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company. Standardize observability. Conclusion.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 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! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. Zerto’s Cyber Resilience Vault is the solution.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. The correct action, especially in the face of a service outage, would be to opt for a swift rollback of the change that introduced the bug. Striking a balance between these two is essential for maintaining a robust and resilient IT environment.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Though ransomware has dominated conversations in the data protection sphere for quite some time, stories of recent outages due to this threat still circulate. A colleague and I hosted a riveting session on the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault , a roundtable discussion that garnered so much interest we had to accommodate an overspill.

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