One of the most persistent and baseless misconceptions about private cloud is that companies don’t need a disaster recovery plan for their business applications. Girish Dadge explains why this is a misconception and looks at what needs to be in place for effective DR.
HP Wolf Security has released the findings of a global survey of 1,100 IT decision makers (ITDMs), examining their concerns around rising Nation State cyber attacks.
44 percent of organizations have been the target or victim of a ransom-related distributed denial of service (RDDoS) attack in the last 12 months, according to new research from the Neustar International Security Council (NISC).
New research by Databarracks has found that 27 percent of surveyed organizations experienced no unplanned IT downtime in the last 12 months, the same figure as in a similar survey in 2019. This is despite widespread remote working and a heavy reliance on connectivity and cloud services.
As organizations navigate the changing operating and threat environment Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) is becoming increasing popular as an alternative to on-premises storage. Jonathan Bowl describes the advantages compared to traditional backup methods.
A new International Data Corporation (IDC) survey has found that more than one third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months.
A new Ponemon survey, commissioned by Team Cymru, has found that half of attacks on organizations that caused severe business disruption were by repeat offenders - and 61 percent of these were never resolved.
Industrial control system (ICS) vulnerability disclosures are drastically increasing as high-profile cyber attacks on critical infrastructure and industrial enterprises have elevated ICS security to a mainstream issue
Netacea, the bot detection and mitigation specialist, has released results from a new survey-based report that reveals the high price that businesses pay because of bot traffic. According to survey respondents, automated bots operated by malicious actors cost businesses an average of 3.6 percent of their annual revenue.
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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.
