As the industry adjusts to increasing levels of cybercrime, insurers are increasing premiums and becoming stricter about whom they will insure. However, if organizations don’t meet even the minimum requirements of security and data protection, cyber insurance will do them […]
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In the UK, it’s less likely for a natural disaster to be a threat to our livelihood and our businesses than other places in the world—although in recent years the autumn floods, snowy winters and hotter summers may indicate we
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We often talk about dealing with disruptions to business operations as “putting out fires,” evoking images of harried frontline employees scrambling to identify and contain the cause of the problem. In reality, firefighters depend on extensive preparation and exacting procedures
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Catastrophic failures are, by definition, unpredictable. It is, however, safe to predict that at some point in the life of a company, it will suffer a failure of its primary infrastructure. However redundant and well-architected a company’s IT systems are,
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A recent study from Kaspersky Lab found that it costs significantly more to protect a virtual infrastructure. The survey determined that virtual servers are more likely to run mission-critical applications or contain sensitive data–making a successful attack against the virtual
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When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast some businesses were prepared, but many weren’t. With the benefit of hindsight organizations learned the hard way what works, what doesn’t, and what should have been done before Katrina to be properly
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Preparation is key when it comes to surviving a catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina. One of the hardest lessons for many businesses was finding out just how unprepared they were to maintain business continuity or resume normal operations in the wake
A decade after Katrina: What have we learned? Read More »
Most of the time nature is beautiful and awe inspiring. But when nature turns violent you have to respect it. When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast ten years ago thousands of businesses found themselves under water and with
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Disasters will strike. Many data loss incidents are a result of human error or completely preventable but the simple truth is that some catastrophes simply can’t be avoided. Whether or not your business survives a catastrophic data loss and emerges on
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There are two persistent truths about data. First, it’s a matter of “when” not “if” you will experience some sort of catastrophic data loss. Second, lack of preparation virtually guarantees that a catastrophic data loss will occur when you least
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