Scality predicts that data storage will become massively decentralized in 2020 and hybrid cloud will become the defacto standard for organizations as they seek ways to manage and use data efficiently and intelligently.
During 2019 the data protection space faced a number of challenges. Ransomware attacks soared, with a 118 percent increase in attacks; and data protection as a service (DPaaS) deployment rose to dominate many business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.
PCs still running Windows 7 when it passes its end of life date on the 14th of January will be significantly more at risk of ransomware, Veritas Technologies has warned. According to Veritas, 26 percent of PCs are expected to still be running the Microsoft software after support for patches and bug fixes ends.
Eltjo Hofstee looks at some of the possible impacts that Brexit could have on UK organizations and the way in which they manage and provision disaster recovery. Discussions about GDPR between the UK and the EU will be crucial to determining a way forward…
The latest cyber security innovations may be attractive, but many small and medium sized organizations are still failing to implement basic protection and controls, leaving them vulnerable to what should be trivial and easily prevented attacks.
As has been widely reported, the Travelex foreign exchange company has experienced a long-running business continuity incident due to cyber criminals using ransomware to obtain control over Travelex IT systems. In response to the incident Continuity Central has been gathering comments from cyber resilience providers…
Radware has released its 2019-2020 Global Application & Network Security Report, which states that more than one in four respondents attribute attacks against their organization to cyber warfare or nation-state activity.
Amazon AWS has told users of Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), or Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) that are taking advantage of SSL/TLS certificate validation when connecting to database instances that it is necessary to ‘download and install a fresh certificate
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert to warn US organizations about the imminent threat of cyber attacks sponsored by the Iranian government and military.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
