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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

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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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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

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The practice brings together formerly separate disciplines of information security, business continuity, and disaster response (BC/DR) deployed to meet common goals. Organizations can’t just think about backup but [also about] how to do recovery as well. It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach,” Leech says.

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CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in

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The more applications and businesses that depend on a single cloud provider, the greater the potential for wide-scale impact of business continuity failures, Gartner’s surveys revealed. C-suite executives betting on a primary cloud provider are also worried about reducing their options in the long term.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

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The Optus outage provides a prompt for assessment, offering IT leaders insights into how to better strengthen defenses and how to better respond when things go wrong. It’s important to review your business continuity plans and ensure you’ve got some kind of backup, where possible, to continue with [business as usual],” says Tett.

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How to Calculate ROI for RPA

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Robotic process automation software is not part of an organization’s IT infrastructure. Instead, it sits on top of it, enabling a company to implement the technology quickly and efficiently — all without changing the existing infrastructure and systems. All the factors mentioned above are considered to be the Return.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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