Frank Jablonski looks at how organizations can provide both high availability and disaster recovery for critical applications running in purely public and hybrid cloud environments.
Data taken from Databarracks recently released Data Health Check survey shows that only 19 percent do not know how much IT downtime costs their business: this is down from 35 percent in 2017.
Kovrr has released a report that estimates the potential for both large and catastrophic insurance losses to the United States manufacturing industry due to recently discovered industrial IoT vulnerabilities.
Many small & medium-sized businesses (SMBs) still rely on the Windows 7 operating system (OS), despite extended support coming to an end in January 2020, according to Kaspersky research.
There is plenty of hype around edge computing and hyperconvergence, but how useful are these technology approaches to business continuity? Alan Conboy explains why the combination can help to reduce downtime to the absolute minimum.
Kaspersky researchers detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications in Q2 2019 – including ones belonging to eight new malware families. This is more than double the number of new samples detected a year ago, in Q2 2018 (7,620).
Juniper Research has published a new report, ‘The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Threat Analysis, Impact Assessment & Mitigation Strategies 2019-2024’. The report predicts that the cost of data breaches will rise from $3 trillion each year to over $5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11 percent.
As the quantity and frequency of advanced threats continue to accelerate, a new SANS Institute survey, ‘Effectively Addressing Advanced Threats’, found that a continued lack of visibility and the complexity of managing data across on-premises and cloud infrastructures further complicates the battle against such threats.
A new survey-based study from Exabeam showed that 68 percent of respondents find that red team exercises are more effective than blue team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue team testing.
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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.
