As I’ve noted, IT resilience requires designing for the continuous availability of all business processes, workflows, technologies, and policies needed for always-on operations.
To do this, you need outwardly-focused, cloud-conscious backup and business recovery solutions able to provide continuous data protection and end-to-end recovery automation regardless of what’s in your IT environment or how/where it changes.
Bringing integration and efficiency to your organization’s communications technologies? I recommend you keep these matters front-of-mind:
Your budget, your legacy. Older communications installations may not do well in Unified Communications (UC) architectures — so do you attempt to bring along what you already have or replace it?
This decision impacts your network. If you haven’t been keeping up with users’ demands for connectivity, a successful UC deployment may require more capacity than you currently possess.
The impacts of downtime on a business can be devastating, as this cringe–inducing chart reveals:
Downtime impacts
Source: 3 Steps to IT Resilience, Forrester
The last time I posted, I described several cybersecurity solutions which are moving beyond the reactive, siloed offerings that continue to be necessary, but are no longer sufficient to protect our enterprises.
These solutions can seem daunting. The complexity of it all often overwhelms.
This is partly due to what’s happening to our information infrastructures, which are also becoming more complex as they go hybrid. They are, essentially, boundless as they accommodate internet communication. Meanwhile, today’s in–house data centers are increasingly virtualized and typically combine a variety of cloud and managed services.
In my recent posts, I’ve focused on some of the top security threats faced by anyone trying to keep their business data and systems safe.
Besides app attacks, web attacks, social engineering exploits, and ransomware, there’s plenty more to be concerned about – the challenges of trusting devices and sensors that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT), breaches that steal huge swaths of “big data,” and the frightening vulnerabilities of industrial control systems .
In my last post, I focused on several key types of cyber threat most likely to challenge your business right now. This time, I’m drilling down — to ransomware and what you can do to protect your enterprise from it.
Why ransomware prevention? Because security experts regard ransomware as today’s most serious cyber threat , having increased 35% in just a year to an average of nearly 1,000 per day in 2015 .
