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

CIO

This analysis isn’t just a statistical exercise but a crucial necessity in our interconnected world, where the security of our digital infrastructure is intertwined with our physical safety and economic stability. A BCP typically includes four steps: business impact analysis, recovery strategies, plan development, and testing and exercises.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

One common business continuity planning tool is a checklist that includes supplies and equipment, the location of data backups and backup sites, where the plan is available and who should have it, and contact information for emergency responders, key personnel, and backup site providers. It should be a living document.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

CIO

It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”. As part of this exercise, organizations need to prepare adequate response plans and enforce the requisite best practices to bring the business back online. A Cyberresilience Road Map.

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO

It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.” As part of this exercise, organizations need to prepare adequate response plans and enforce the requisite best practices to bring the business back online.

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Scheduling Amazon DynamoDB Backups with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

Linux Academy

Let’s assume you want to take a backup of one of your DynamoDB tables each day. We also want to retain backups for a specified period of time. Second, we grant permission for the Lambda function to Create, List, and Delete DynamoDB backups on all tables. Verify the scheduled backup job ran using CloudWatch Logs.

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Metriport helps you take your quantified self to the next increment

TechCrunch

Counting calories, summing steps, measuring your mood, proportioning your purchases, sizing your sleep span and enumerating the extent of your exercise — the quantified-self movement is becoming easier as our smartwatches, computers and other logging tools take some of the work off our hands.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Evaluating if the project will allow the company to increase revenues or replace an aging system that will ultimately save costs over time is a necessary exercise in eliminating projects that don’t move the needle,” he says. “A