No one in IT leadership wants to go through a data disaster recovery effort or rectify large-scale impacts to corporate systems. Even so, it’s something CIOs, CISOs, data administrators, and others in charge of enterprise data infrastructure have found themselves doing thanks to the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents. (See Colonial Pipeline, Brenntag, Accenture, South African Justice Department. The list goes on.) These cyberattack threats are in addition to the increase in wildfires, storms, and other natural disasters which threaten physical data center infrastructures. The best way to recover quickly from a disaster — or even…
Structuring Recovery and Business Continuity in an Unstructured Environment
Disaster recovery and business continuity must function now in a far more risk-laden and complex environment. While ransomware threats continue...
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Rounding Up a Backup
Five Reliable Methods to Verify Your Backup's Integrity Back in 1998, Oren Jacob, assistant technical director at Pixar, watched in...
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Cybersecurity’s Lesser-Known Pain Point: Operational Technology Systems
Worldwide focus on cybersecurity is not new. Over the last decade, governments and corporations have invested heavily in information technology...
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Rethinking Disaster Recovery for Cloud-based SaaS Applications
Dropbox. Google Workspaces (formerly G Suite). Microsoft Office 365. Salesforce. These software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings represent some of the business-critical applications...
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