There is one outstanding issue that deserves special attention: the recovery of information technology (IT) following a disaster. This chapter aims to demonstrate how you can succeed in this area by developing a robust Disaster Recovery Plan.
What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan?
A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) outlines how your organization aims to bounce back from a major disruption like a cyberattack. Disaster recovery is closely connected to continuity and data backup. While Business Continuity Plans take into account all business assets and deal with the resumption of core operational functionality after a disaster, a DRP focuses exclusively on recovery of IT assets, such as computer systems, data, and IT infrastructure. A DRP is broader than a backup strategy, since it deals with recovery of all of your IT assets, not simply the data.
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You’ve probably heard about cyber insurance by this point. It’s been around for several years now. Yes, it’s useful to minimize your risks—especially as cybercrime has lately grown into a multi-billion dollar business.
Businesses and organizations large and small are beginning to realize that cybersecurity is a necessary evil—it’s an evil in the sense that there is no guarantee your data or client personally identifiable information (we call this PII) will always remain secure.
Besides losing valuable or sensitive data, there’s a bigger chance now than ever before that a cybersecurity event could hurt your company, its reputation, inhibit your business growth and (worst of all) decimate your financial reserves to the point of closure (over a quarter of businesses that suffer a major cyberattack close within a year!).
As a part of your cybersecurity and disaster recovery strategy, you probably are thinking about investing in cyber insurance to minimize your business liabilities.
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When it comes to security, what are your biggest problems?
Today’s climate unfortunately has not gotten much better when it comes to cyberattacks and data breaches. Regardless of your industry—healthcare, financial, service, or manufacturing—your network is vulnerable to attacks that nation states (or even 12 year old kids!) may be implementing off of our shores and out of our nation’s jurisdiction.
Given the sheer number of criminals drawn to penetrating vulnerabilities in networks, cybersecurity has not gotten easier in 2019 (and many experts believe this insecurity may continue to manifest in our organizations for years to come).
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Apparently, there is at least one piece looking to fetch more than a million dollars.
The subject? A computer infected with six strains of high-profile malware. Think WannaCry and BlackEnergy here for examples. And this art—a laptop sitting on a table gap-locked from the rest of the internet (a techy way of saying the computer is in a vacuum to prevent the ransomware from escaping).
In a project called “Persistence of Chaos”, artist Guo O. Dong, with some cybersecurity consultants, created a Samsung Blue Netbook from 2008, running Windows XP Service Pack 3. It features six of the most prolific malware to date. These malware have been responsible for over 95 BILLION dollars in financial damage to businesses and organizations worldwide.
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Why seasonal employees can unknowingly leave companies to a broad range of cyberattacks.
It’s the end of May and summer is just around the corner. If you’re like many businesses, you might be getting ready for a slew of interns or summer workers filing the ranks of new team members around the office. It’s definitely nice seeing new faces, but with those faces might come some new security holes.
You see, employees represent one of the biggest threats to your network cybersecurity.
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Truth of the matter—there are way more job openings than experienced candidates today.
Cybersecurity jobs are abounding. If you go on Indeed, LinkedIn, or some other flavor of job site, you won’t have a hard time finding openings for cybersecurity positions—some looking for newbies to the field (maybe those that have some education in cybersecurity) and others looking for years of experience.
What employers are finding? Security jobs are going unfilled. Unfilled to the point that many big employers are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. In today’s cybersecurity departments, a lot of those tech companies that have been actively recruiting people in cybersecurity-related positions for years, there simply aren’t enough people with real world knowledge. What many companies, including the likes of IBM and other hi-tech companies are finding is that no experience is required.
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