The 2022 World Backup Day will be held on 31st March. This annual event is aimed at businesses, as well as individuals, and aims to highlight the importance of backup strategies.
Web malware (47 percent) and ransomware (42 percent) now top the list of security threats that organizations are most concerned about. Yet despite the growing risks, less than a third (27 percent) have advanced threat protection in place on every endpoint device that can access corporate applications and resources.
Many businesses are reliant on a continuous online presence but may not have yet fully considered designing their platform to be able to respond to the effects of downtime - whether it is caused by an outage, cyber attack, or natural disaster. Terry Storrar provides some advice for those starting out on their disaster recovery journey.
The UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has published four new guidance documents to provide advice on data centre security.
Radware has released its 2021-2022 Global Threat Analysis Report. The comprehensive analysis shows that companies are failing to adapt their cyber attack mitigation strategies to accommodate mid and small size attacks or 'micro flood' attacks and application layer DDoS attacks.
Tiago Dias looks at the importance of data centres / centers, arguing that many should now be seen as critical infrastructure, given the impacts that lack of availability can have. In this piece Tiago looks at the key risks impacting data centres and how these can be mitigated against.
Legacy mission critical applications are a headache for many CIOs. Here, Nick Denning, CIO of Diegesis, offers an alternative view to the lure of new technologies and the consequential risky business of replacing tried and tested technology.
As organizations start to look to metaverse platforms the associated cyber security threats need consideration. Matias Madou looks at cyber security issues associated with the metaverse and offers some recommendations…
Mid-market organizations in the UK suffered significant financial and operational damage as a result of cyber attacks in 2021, and want to see fundamental change to how cyber security is designed and run, new research reveals.
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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.
