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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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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

CIO

But if you do your planning exercise properly, you shouldn’t have to move your applications around,” he says. Moving an app across clouds is expensive because you also need to move the associated data, and data egress is a very costly exercise,” says Nag. One big reason: they’re often locked into their chosen provider’s ecosystem.

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Top automation pitfalls and how to avoid them

CIO

So there was no definitive value coming out the back end of the exercise.” That was quite a rigorous exercise to get right.” They would have looked at the ROI and stopped the program.” Just look at the online chatbots without human backups. But these were minor issues that didn’t scale across the whole operation.

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Multi-Extortion Techniques: Data Theft and Harassment on the Rise

Palo Alto Networks

This means that the traditional advice of maintaining backups is no longer sufficient. Organizations have improved their ability to create and recover from backups, especially given redundancy capabilities in the cloud. In general, the cyber insurance industry will only insure an organization that shows evidence of data backups.

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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

Pair Programming. Nobody does—especially not people who pair program. Pair programming is one of the most controversial Agile ideas. Most programmers I know who tried pairing for a month found that they prefered it to programming alone. That’s because pair programming doubles your brainpower. Of course not.

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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

Coding Horror

That's like the most effective exercise program ever! Google's paid "Acceptable Ads" program is a way to funnel money into adblockers to, uh, encourage them to display certain ads. Finally, an exercise program I can believe in. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte. With money.

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How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

The Citus Data

They include four broad categories: (a) PostgreSQL test suite , (b) regression tests to validate output for basic and complex SQL, © isolation tests to stress behavior of concurrent sessions, and (d) failure tests that exercise failures (for example, network failures). These tests run against different versions of Postgres and Citus.

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