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Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Strategy
Natural disasters, aging infrastructures (both external and internal), and acts of terrorism are some of the events that present the threat of disaster to an organization. Corporate directors and managers are responsible for ensuring their shareholders that they have deployed best practices in assessing all potential risks, and that plans are in place to mitigate [...]
Read Article ›Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery Solutions
As a solution, Disaster Recovery has been around for some time – the need to back up IT assets in the event of incidents such as flooding, fire, power failure or other physical and electronic attack is clear. Business continuity is an extension of this to ensure processes and transactions can continue under all circumstances. [...]
Read Article ›Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning and Management: Technology Overview
Business disruptions—whether the result of natural disasters, technology failures or criminal acts—can threaten the very survival of a company. Such disruptions cannot always be predicted or prevented, but sound planning can dramatically reduce the damage they cause. But effective preparation for disaster recovery and business continuity is a job for the entire company. Business Continuity [...]
Read Article ›Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are not new topics. Both have been around for a number of years. However,while the concepts have been around for a long time, they were not that widely implemented. In addition, the catastrophes that were envisioned in most disaster recovery or business continuity plans were somewhat narrow in scope. [...]
Read Article ›The Changing Face of Network Security Threats
NETWORK administrators face many threats from both inside and outside the walls of their infrastructure. This paper discusses the risks that everyone faces along with ways to mitigate the exposure and resulting damage from such an attack. It will also focus on new devices being produced to provide increased security. Despite their slipping market share [...]
Read Article ›Stolen Drives and Servers
Almost every organization is well aware of the risk to confidential data stored on mobile devices such as notebook PCs that can be lost or stolen. But few organizations realize that drives or even entire servers are vulnerable to theft, loss, or maintenance mix-ups despite the “protection” of residing in the organization data center. Stolen [...]
Read Article ›SECURITY THREATS: A GUIDE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES
A successful business works on the basis of revenue growth and loss prevention. Small and medium-sized businesses are particularly hit hard when either one or both of these business requirements suffer. Data leakage, down-time and reputation loss can easily turn away new and existing customers if such situations are not handled appropriately and quickly. This [...]
Read Article ›Security Beyond the Copper Wire
IT security is usually an inside job. Threats to the network come from within the virtual realm that technology makes possible. Firewalls, (antivirus, antispyware and antispam) filters and other security software, as well as best practices, procedures and user training, all help organizations fend off network-based attacks that threaten from within the copper wire. Security [...]
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