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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO

This means that every possession in a company’s storage estate needs to be cyber resilient, designed to thwart ransomware, malware, internal cyber threats, and other potential attacks. More than 75% of CIOs identified digital transformation as their top budget priority of the last year, according to Constellation Research.

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Tech Trends for 2024

Infinidat

Cyber resilience, which is provided by primary storage and secondary storage systems, will be ever-increasingly coupled with other cybersecurity products to combat cyberattacks, such as ransomware and malware, much more effectively. Data disasters are game changers for disaster recovery and business continuity.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

But in August 2021, teachers and students noticed that the lights were staying on at full brightness continuously. It turns out the system had been hit by malware , and had gone into a fallback mode in which the lights never turned off. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Generative AI, IT Strategy

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5 Reasons Why NIS2 Directive Preparation Should Start Now, Part Two: Implementation Takes Time

Ivanti

Inform management about your gaps – and get budget to remediate them The NIS2 Directive imposes significant obligations on organisations that fall under its scope, which may entail substantial costs and resources. Therefore, following the NIS2 Directive is a legal necessity and a strategic priority.

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IT Risk Assessment: Is Your Plan Up to Scratch?

Kaseya

You can collect a great deal of data about your IT assets and setup using the risk assessment process, which facilitates better decision-making and allows you to determine the appropriate IT budget. With the right IT solutions, you can optimize your IT budget, earn a higher return on investment and ensure better security.

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Top 5 Ways to Improve the Security of Your Business

Kaseya

About 43 percent of cyber attacks are aimed at SMBs since they do not always have the best defenses in place to secure their business. The primary challenges for most SMBs are limited IT budget for security tools ?and Common antivirus and anti-malware (AV/AM) tools usually won’t be effective against these threats.

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What COVID-19 Response Strategies Tell Us About the Business-Cybersecurity Disconnect

Tenable

According to the Forrester study, as of mid-April 2020, four in 10 organizations (41%) had already experienced at least one business-impacting* cyberattack as a result of a COVID-19-related phishing or malware scheme. Our work puts us squarely at the intersection of technology and business. How do we make 2020 a break even year?