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.
With an article prepared for Business Continuity Awareness Week, Ryan Weeks, chief information security officer at Datto shares five tips that business managers and IT teams should follow to help ensure that disaster recovery testing efforts are effective.
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.
C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, according to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.
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...
A new report highlights trends and patterns in open source use. It finds that many organizations are not effectively managing open source applications and components, resulting in significant vulnerabilities.
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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.
