Pure Storage

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) encourages security and IT teams to work together to reduce the impact of attacks and even prevent outages and permanent data loss. NIST CSF 2.0—

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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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Vulnerability Outage Capacity BCM 98

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

Disaster Recovery 111

Disaster Recovery Outage BCM Application 111

LogisManager

JULY 30, 2024

This wasn’t just a blip; it was the largest outage in IT history. While a fix was eventually released , the necessity for manual repairs prolonged the outages, exacerbating the crisis. Nonexistent : The manual fixes and lingering outages showed just how unprepared everyone was. million Microsoft Windows systems to crash.

Risk Management 98

Risk Management Management Outage Banking 98

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

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. It also showed the vulnerability of the city to a power cut, when most people presumed that power in a city would only ever be cut for a short period of time.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

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. It also showed the vulnerability of the city to a power cut, when most people presumed that power in a city would only ever be cut for a short period of time.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Outage Airlines Consulting BCM 97

BCM METRICS

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside […].

Internet 72

Internet Healthcare Outage Vulnerability 72

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. Security vulnerabilities: Kubernetes is a complex system with many components and dependencies. But like any system, it can be subject to unplanned disruptions.

Failover 96

Failover Disaster Recovery Application Outage 96

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Nashville is vulnerable to blackouts, particularly during cold weather. The model allowed the team to determine how the citys power grid and system would respond to various outage scenarios. In other words, the software helped the team develop a better response than they could individually.

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Resilience Hospitality Authorization Pandemic 100

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.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Audit Management 52

Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), On the preventive side, patch management helps to reduce the attack surface of an organization by fixing known vulnerabilities. Threat and vulnerability management. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Vulnerability of Customer Data. Data breaches from internal and external sources, as well as technology vulnerabilities, can harm a company’s customers, damage its reputation, and result in a flurry of fines and penalties from regulators. Support is AI-driven, so issues can be resolved before they become outages.

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Vulnerability Pandemic Technology Outage 98

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. million Windows devices.

Business Continuity 92

Business Continuity Insurance Insurance Outage 92

Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

This study uncovered a demand for data that has never been greater, and yet the vulnerability and risks to data integrity are escalating, with ransomware attacks growing in both severity and scale. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Failover Application Vulnerability 98

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

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. It also showed the vulnerability of the city to a power cut, when most people presumed that power in a city would only ever be cut for a short period of time.

Outage 40

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We have to assume they’ll use every tool, skill set, and vulnerability they can to keep their revenue streams healthy. Building access systems have already been in the sightlines of hackers, and security professionals have already pointed out serious vulnerabilities in smart building control systems that hackers could exploit.

Security 111

Security Vulnerability Hospitality Backup 111

Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Generators are an integral part of the preparedness planning process and can keep your business operating even if there’s a power outage. This can be especially crucial when temperatures are below freezing leaving the building vulnerable to internal temperature drops.

Backup 86

Backup Outage Vulnerability Security 86

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Here are some examples of vulnerabilities that can exist at facilities even after risk mitigation controls have been implemented: The backup power source can provide only a fraction of the power needed to keep critical operations running in the event of an outage. Too often, even a surface investigation can uncover deep gaps.

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Mitigation Authorization Risk Management Vulnerability 97

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed. Risk avoidance.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 95

The Rand Blog

JULY 22, 2024

The CrowdStrike outage underscores that the global economy and U.S. national security are vulnerable to attack. Managing risks will require intragovernmental and perhaps international coordination.

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Outage Vulnerability Security Management 44

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Data breaches often exploit vulnerabilities in software, weak passwords, or insider threats to gain access to critical systems and exfiltrate data. Cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in outdated systems or through advanced persistent threats (APTs). Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust.

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Security Vulnerability Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience 52

CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. Have alternatives in the event of utility outages All businesses and organizations are reliant on utilities.

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All-Hazards Outage Hazard Continuity Planning 52

Pure Storage

AUGUST 2, 2021

Do we have a vulnerability and patch management program? Installing software patches and updating systems to eliminate vulnerabilities are the low-hanging fruit of security tasks. The documentation should also focus on critical infrastructure that can be rapidly restored in an outage since other applications depend on it.

Benchmark 97

Benchmark Cybersecurity Application Vulnerability 97

PagerDuty

JUNE 29, 2022

It is particularly important for healthcare facilities to have a consistent, reliable power source to ensure that vulnerable patients – specifically those who rely on electricity to sustain their lives – are not disrupted. . Understand how alerts and data could help resolve power outages. The Power of PagerDuty.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitality Outage Alert 52

PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Patch Deployment Description: Vulnerabilities in Linux systems need to be patched promptly to prevent exploitation. This automation task automatically applies security patches when a vulnerability is detected. It can be triggered when a vulnerability is detected or scheduled to run periodically. — 10.

Vulnerability 52

Vulnerability Backup Outage Application 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Both dependencies might violate static stability, because we are relying on resources in our DR plan that might be affected by the outage we’re seeing.

Disaster Recovery 78

Disaster Recovery Failover Outage Application 78

everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

Download Financial Vulnerabilities White Paper The financial impact of climate change on organizations The cost of climate change on organizations is multi-faceted, and the consequences can be severe. For example, in February 2021 a severe winter storm hit Texas , causing widespread power outages and water shortages.

Mitigation 52

Mitigation Vulnerability Outage Resilience 52

PagerDuty

AUGUST 6, 2024

The recent global outage reminds us that identifying issues and their impact radius is just the first part of a lengthy process to remediation. Incidents are inevitable; how we prepare for and learn from them is what sets teams up to respond more effectively next time.

Outage 64

Outage Audit Security Technology 64

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Securing your data is just the start: once you have a data protection strategy in place, it’s critical to consider recovery of that data should any disruption, outage, or cyber-attack occur. This includes the availability of emergency backup services, such as batteries and generators, in case of power outages.

Backup 119

Backup Disaster Recovery Application Security 119

IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

Disaster Recovery 78

Disaster Recovery BCM Retail Business Continuity 78

MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

At the same time, a new need has developed: one for a place remote workers can go if they are no longer able to work at home (due to a power outage or whatever it might be). In the age of remote work and the hybrid workplace, the need for such sites has contracted. The “What, Me Worry?” approach to cybersecurity.

BCM 98

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Internet 98

OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

Unfortunately, amidst the excitement, a critical vulnerability was overlooked. Then, regardless of how much SaaS has benefited your company, it’ll only be talk when the data you thought was backed up isn’t there or when productivity grinds to a halt because an outage is keeping users from the resources they need to get their job done.

Outage 52

Outage Backup Authentication Pandemic 52

OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the 2022 Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report , 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware in 2021, more than half (51%) suffered ransomware-related outages and more than a third of data (36%) was unrecoverable after a successful attack. Vulnerabilities Can Go Unnoticed. The real kicker?

Disaster Recovery 52

Disaster Recovery Vulnerability Backup Outage 52

Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In reality, they are highly vulnerable when a real DR scenario occurs. Because some data simply cannot be replaced, you want to keep as much as possible during any outage, which means setting a low RPO. Importance of disaster recovery.

Disaster Recovery 75

Disaster Recovery Application Outage Failover 75

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. Continue operating your critical business operations.”

Outage 52

Outage BCM Internet Healthcare 52