IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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While the hardware and software costs for disaster recovery are well understood many organizations do not fully realize that, in order to be assured of successfully executing the plan in the event of an outage or disaster, a comprehensive IT DR program must first be in place.
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Businesses’ data security, data management and corporate compliance are being jeopardised by an internal army of data hoarders, according to a recent survey. As a result, 77 percent of IT decision makers are now more concerned about the impact of data hoarding than a year ago.
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Iland has published a new report, ‘The State of IT Disaster Recovery Amongst UK Businesses’, that reveals real-world failover rates as well as overconfidence and other underlying issues that prevent companies from optimally ensuring business continuity.
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Yahoo has issued a statement in which its CISO, Bob Lord, says that “Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts” was stolen by hackers in late 2014. As well as the size of the hack, the incident is noteworthy because of the length of time it has taken Yahoo to highlight the extent of the risk to its users.
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Kyle Wickert explains what an application-centric approach is and why organizations need to start adopting it for security management. Moving towards an application-centric approach may be easier than you expect...
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The more complex IT systems and associated devices become, the more chance there is of security risks arising due to mis-management. Destiny Bertucci looks at this important issue.
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New research commissioned by IP EXPO Europe has found that 47 percent of UK IT decision makers (ITDMs) are more concerned about cyber terrorism attacks now than they were 12 months ago. It was identified as the biggest cyber security risk in the future (27 percent), followed by attacks to national infrastructure (13 percent).
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While organizations wrestle with the issue of whether to pay or not to pay if they are impacted by ransomware, Logicalis US suggests CIOs focus on how to protect, thwart and recover from a potential attack.
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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments about the draft Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, a self-assessment tool to help organizations better understand the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts.
