IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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Arcserve, LLC, has released results from a new survey revealing that while the cost of downtime is the top IT concern, less than 15 percent of businesses have a high degree of confidence in recovering their data should downtime or a disaster event occur.
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Microsoft says that Azure Availability Zones are now available to help organizations implement a comprehensive resiliency strategy. The announcement was made in a blog post by Azure Head of Global Infrastructure, Tom Keane.
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Biometrics are fast becoming an integral part of online security but not all biometric options are equal in security strength and usability. Elliot Thompson provides a useful overview of the options that are available.
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The mainframe is becoming more important to large enterprises, with the percentage of organizations running at least half their business critical applications on that platform expected to increase next year.
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UK businesses lost 82 million hours to Internet outages in 2017, according to research conducted by Opinium.
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Cyber incident response preparation is often a weak area in many organizations. In this article, Peter Alexander looks at how to develop an effective incident response plan and overviews five steps that should be taken during an incident.
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David Bermingham looks at ways to ensure that business critical information held within SQL Server deployments can be protected via cluster quorums, including looking at the role of various ‘witness’ options.
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IBM Security has published the results of a global study exploring the factors and challenges of being a cyber resilient organization. The study was conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM and found that 77 percent of respondents admit they do not have a formal cyber security incident response plan (CSIRP) applied consistently across their organization.
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New findings from a Vanson Bourne study indicate that the majority (60 percent) of respondents have not fully evaluated the cost of a cloud outage to their business and are therefore ill prepared to deal with the impact of an outage.
