TechTarget | June 9

Before the cloud era, only a few organizations -- generally the biggest and best-funded -- could afford to have a second data center for business continuity or disaster recovery. The costs of hardware, space and personnel were too prohibitive for others.

With the cloud, however, adding capacity is relatively easy and dramatically less expensive. With multiple cloud locations and AWS availability zones, enterprises have the ability to build applications that can be more scalable and available than tradition on-premises apps. However, turning AWS redundancy into a fully functioning secondary off-site data center is not necessarily easy.

Canadian Underwriter | June 9

Everyone needs to be trained in business continuity management, and the importance of managing expectations is one lesson learned during the major floods in 2013 in southern Alberta, speakers suggested Tuesday at the World Conference on Disaster Management.

Australian businesses have been warned they need to spread the risk in their cloud computing operations across different regions after the Sydney storms on Sunday knocked out the operations of numerous Amazon Web Services customers.
 

Tech Republic | June 6

High availability events are more likely to be triggered than disaster recovery events, but often aren't tested for as much. Here's what tech leaders can take away from Netflix's approach to the problem.

Researchers have just unveiled a new robotic “insect” that can not only fly, but perch on a variety of surfaces, including ceilings. Using switchable electrostatic adhesion, the bio-inspired device can land on everything from glass to wood to a leaf while searching for hazardous chemicals, which is its purpose if not what’s most notable about it.

BCI, Jim Preen | May 18

Why do businesses avoid crucial planning? The reasons aren’t hard to find. Apart from total disaster junkies no one particularly likes to think about crises and for most SMEs just surviving is a daily struggle. Keeping all the plates spinning in the air requires 100% attention, who is going to slice out even 1% just to consider a bunch of scary ‘what if’ scenarios? 

Acronis | May 13

This white paper discusses the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) solution using an ROI analysis as an argument for the investment. Read on to learn how your enterprise can choose a DR and business continuity strategy that will match your needs and how to calculate ROI for your DR solutions.

Financial Times | March 16

Fake emails apparently sent by chief executives to senior employees asking for money transfers are estimated to have cost businesses as much as $2bn in the past two years, the FBI has said. There have been more than 12,000 corporate victims worldwide. Are you sure your business will not be the next to fall for the scam?

GCN | February 10

According to a recent study by Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data centre outage rose to $740,357 in 2015 -- an increase of 38 percent since 2010. The increase in the maximum downtime cost ($2,409,991) was even greater, climbing 81 percent over that same time period.

AFR | February 2

Complacency and secrecy in Australian businesses are masking the true extent of increasing cyber security threats, a new study by one of the country's largest corporate law firms has found.

AFR | February 1

Mandatory reporting of data breaches will require any company, with an annual turnover of more than $3 million and is subject to the Privacy Act, to notify a person if their information has been compromised.

Business Wire | November 23

Do you need a Continuity Plan for your Cloud based services? This IDG survey explores the risks associated with SaaS in the enterprise, the importance of contingency planning and the consequences experienced when a SaaS vendor does not meet expectations for application support.

Tech Target | January 7

The Internet, virtualization and the evolution of public clouds has provided a much more practical opportunity for businesses of all sizes to implement a BC/DR plan without heavily investing in additional data center space. This article discusses DR in the cloud and looks at the positives as well as the issues.

Allianz | December 9

Increasing interconnectivity of global supply chains drives business interruption risk and losses according to a new report released by global insurer Allianz.

Fire and explosion are the main cause of business interruption loss for businesses.  Human and technical factors dominate the list and by far exceed the impact of natural hazards.

PR Newswire | December 9

Aligning operational risk management (ORM) with strategy is critical for financial institutions to effectively identify, assess and mitigate risks, however many have yet to fully align risk and strategy, according to a new survey report released by KPMG and The Risk Management Association.