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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO

You’ve invested in state-of-the-art, end-to-end security solutions. You’ve implemented robust security and privacy policies and outlined best practices. The question is: are you prepared to recover from a cyber event? Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. The longer it takes to recover, the more it will cost.

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What is BCDR? Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Explained

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With organizations going through digital transformations and more employees working remotely, cybersecurity is a top priority for almost all IT teams. In fact, in the 2019 State of IT Operations Survey Report , nearly 61 percent of the survey respondents who had a security breach in the past year, had two to four IT outages.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. How has the job of a casino security leader changed as games have become digitalized? Read on for his thoughts on AI, zero trust, and more.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

CIO

Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact.

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO

Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact.

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