New York’s Bold Move To Improve Cybersecurity

Could It Have A Bigger Impact Than More Famous Legal Siblings? The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the GDPR went into effect earlier this year, and New York state is following suit; last week marked the compliance deadline for the NY DFS cybersecurity regulations. Compared to the broad provisions of the GDPR and CPPA,… Continue reading New York’s Bold Move To Improve Cybersecurity

New ISO standards for greener machine tools

When the topic of energy efficiency comes up, energy-efficient machine tools don’t immediately spring to mind. Yet machine tools contain motors and auxiliary components whose energy demand varies widely during machining operations. Happily, a new series of ISO standards can help measure energy supplied and improve machine design and performance. Machine tools are complex power-driven… Continue reading New ISO standards for greener machine tools

ISO 22330: take care of your people, and they will take care of you

Have you read or started to use the ISO 22330 business continuity management standard? Andrew Lawton explains what it is and why it is important that organizations take notice of it. ISO 22330, a new business continuity management standard providing ‘Guidelines for people aspects of business continuity’ was launched in June 2018, filling a gap… Continue reading ISO 22330: take care of your people, and they will take care of you

The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of writing incident management objectives

Writing incident management objectives is an art that needs to be taught and practised and should be included as an aspect of business continuity exercises. In this article Charlie Maclean Bristol shares some advice on the subject. During an incident, it is seemingly obvious that your objective is to solve the problem and return the… Continue reading The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of writing incident management objectives

US Signal’s 2018 IT Resiliency Survey Reveals that 70 Percent of US Business Respondents Have Experienced Unplanned IT Disruption in the Last 12 Months

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced the results of its 2018 IT Resiliency Survey. The survey reveals that 70 percent of respondents from U.S. businesses experienced at least one unplanned IT disruption over the last 12 months. With this confirmation comes mounting concern—66 percent believe they are vulnerable to IT… Continue reading US Signal’s 2018 IT Resiliency Survey Reveals that 70 Percent of US Business Respondents Have Experienced Unplanned IT Disruption in the Last 12 Months

Cisco Accelerates Growth for Service Providers with New Silicon and Software for the 5G and Multicloud Era

SAN JOSE, Calif. – As the world continues to embrace the reality of 5G and multicloud, service providers are experiencing disruptive growth and change that require new approaches to more efficiently build and cost-effectively manage critical IP networking infrastructure. 5G connections are expected to explode from 2.3 million in 2020 to more than 25 million in… Continue reading Cisco Accelerates Growth for Service Providers with New Silicon and Software for the 5G and Multicloud Era

‘We’re About to Wake up’: Victims of Colorado’s 2013 Flood Look to End of Recovery

(TNS) – Just beyond the fence at John Vega’s house in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park lie rotting planks of wood, embedded firmly in the ground. The boards were dumped in this neighborhood 50 miles northeast of Denver by torrents of water that surged from the Little Thompson River five years ago this week, during… Continue reading ‘We’re About to Wake up’: Victims of Colorado’s 2013 Flood Look to End of Recovery

LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE: SURVIVING THE #AZURE CLOUD OUTAGE

Yesterday morning I opened my Twitter feed to find that many people were impacted by an Azure outage. When I tried to access the resource page that described the outage and the current resources impacted even that page was unavailable. @AzureSupport was providing updates via Twitter. The original update from @AzureSupport came in at 7:12 AM EDT… Continue reading LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE: SURVIVING THE #AZURE CLOUD OUTAGE

CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE INSTALLS AGILE INTEROPERABLE SOLUTIONS (AIS) INTEGRATIVE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS

With hurricane season here and man-made crises always looming, AIS integrative communications technologies will be at the forefront of saving lives SUNRISE, Fla. — The City of Fort Lauderdale has looked around the corner to Agile Interoperable Solutions of Sunrise, FL in selecting integrative communications technologies for it first responders, city management and other critical… Continue reading CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE INSTALLS AGILE INTEROPERABLE SOLUTIONS (AIS) INTEGRATIVE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS

Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery

Today’s post is the third in our three-part series on how chaos engineering might one day help us get better at business continuity and disaster recovery. In the first post, “What Is Chaos Engineering and Why Should I Care?,” I gave a general introduction to CE. In the second, “Chaos Engineering and Business Continuity,” I… Continue reading Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery