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How to create an effective business continuity plan

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A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

These global events have also underscored the crucial significance of safeguarding our critical infrastructure against domestic or foreign attacks. It’s easy to envision the outcomes that could arise from a major assault on our vital infrastructure.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

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As security risks grow more complex, government agencies are emphasizing new regulations to help lay out what businesses need to do to protect their IT infrastructure while also establishing IT security standards. Is your IT security infrastructure ready for future regulations?

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

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After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

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AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. So far, so good. additional dollars in the wider economy.

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

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Building an effective GenAI strategy is about much more than launching a point solution or siloed group of tools that only work for one part of the business. Achieving that seamlessness between business functions and across geographies requires a new approach by CIOs. With the right partners, however, anything is possible.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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Here are three strategies for getting it done. CIOs can change this thinking by incorporating preemptive projects like disaster recovery into their corporate risk management strategies. In other words, how much business risk does your company run if it can’t find (or train) employees into the jobs it needs to be done?