The importance of business continuity and disaster recovery plans
When it comes to business continuity and disaster recovery plans, businesses always seem to have challenges with keeping them in the forefront.
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Using your cybersecurity budget wisely
The year ahead holds a number of cybersecurity predictions that include evolving ransomware and the cybersecurity skills shortage, and an increase in business cybersecurity spending...
Why business continuity plans are key to ransomware attacks like WannaCry
The monetary consequence a ransomware attack like WannaCry has on an organization is clear; but what about the business disruption damages?
A major key to improving data risk management
Lack of visibility of data assets continues to be a problem within the enterprise. A recent survey by the IRM reveals that two thirds of businesses still don’t know the…
Fixing information security to effectively battle risks
Cybersecurity spending continues to grow. Gartner predicts spending to go from $75.4 billion to $101 billion by 2018. However, research also shows that organizations aren’t effectively investing their cybersecurity spending...
A simple solution to incident response times and rising business costs
The Business Continuity Institute recently reported that two thirds of organizations surveyed had experienced at least one cyber incident in the past twelve months and that 15% had experienced at…
The secret solution to ransomware that nobody’s talking about
There’s been a lot of talk around ransomware lately and for good reason; but of the solutions provided to this growing threat, there's one that is going ignored (even though…
Pandemic plans and key actions to manage the impact of Ebola on your business
If your business continuity managers have been doing their job, you should have an actionable plan set up to manage risks that could arise from unexpected events such as an…
How Katrina Changed Business Continuity Planning
It’s been seven years since Hurricane Katrina changed the lives of Gulf Coast residents on August 29, 2005. The aftermath of Katrina left thousands homeless. But, it also created chaos…
The Non Sexy Sister ~ Business Continuity
Although network security and information security are the new sexy terms in information technology, they are not the only terms to consider. Business continuity may be the non-sexy sister, but…
