Phil Goodwin, Research Director at IDC, previewed the results of the 2019 IDC ‘Business Resilience Readiness Thought Leadership Survey’ during his keynote at ZertoCON, Zerto’s annual conference, which took place recently.
A new study by Cradlepoint shows that the retail industry is still facing challenges with network downtime. The study found that the majority of those surveyed (75 percent) are experiencing unplanned network downtime and outages impacting business during peak hours.
Apricorn has released new research which found that 89 percent of surveyed UK organizations have experienced a data breach, and human error is still the prevailing cause. Almost two thirds (63 percent) of respondents noted that human error was the main cause of a data breach within their organization.
It is the second anniversary of the 27th May 2017 data centre outage that grounded thousands of British Airways customers at a cost to the company of over £50 million. In this article Caroline Seymour looks at the issue of IT resilience in the airline sector.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and AlgoSec have announced the results of a new study, ‘Cloud Security Complexity: Challenges in Managing Security in Native Cloud, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments’.
The Uptime Institute has announced the launch of its new Outage Severity Rating (OSR), which aims to help organizations better understand and articulate service outages in the context of how each incident affects the business.
Bitglass has released findings from its latest report: Kings of the Monster Breaches. Bitglass researched the three largest data breaches of publicly traded companies from each of the last three years in order to uncover cyber security trends and demonstrate the extensive damage that can be done by improper security.
ENISA, the European Union’s network and information security agency, has warned that hijacking attacks aimed at the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) are increasing, creating risks to the resilience of the Internet.
Disaster recovery (DR) is an essential part of any business protocol, but each year we see numerous organizations fall short. By following these eight basic principles, Rod Harrison says that businesses can ensure that they have a complete DR plan that will provide full business continuity...
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
