ZertoCON 2017 - The epicenter of the Business Continuity and IT Resilience world — in the hub of technology, culture and history that is Australia. It’s where BC/DR and hybrid cloud strategists meet and greet, collaborate and congregate, participate and party!
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Pronto Software is an Australian ERP software developer and vendor. The original company has been in the software business for over 40 years.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Aug | Read more
Small business owners and experts share their strategies on how to build a successful, lasting partnership with suppliers/vendors.
Jennifer Lonoff Schiff | 26 Aug | Read more
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events—whether those events might include a hurricane or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot. The CSO's involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency. This primer (compiled from articles on CSOonline) explains the basic concepts of business continuity planning and also directs you to more resources on the topic. Last update: 5/20/2015.
Derek Slater | 22 May | Read more
At the start of 2014, attackers' favorite distributed denial of service attack strategy was to send messages to misconfigured servers with a spoofed return address -- the servers would keep trying to reply to those messages, allowing the attackers to magnify the impact of their traffic.
Maria Korolov | 20 May | Read more
In a breach notification letter sent to employees this week, Sony Pictures outlines the full scope of data that was compromised by attackers shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Steve Ragan | 16 Dec | Read more
A data breach like the one recently reported by AT&T demonstrates that security policies alone are only a paper tiger without the technological teeth to make sure they are enforced, experts say.
Antone Gonsalves | 18 Jun | Read more
ZertoCON 2017 - The epicenter of the Business Continuity and IT Resilience world — in the hub of technology, culture and history that is Australia. It’s where BC/DR and hybrid cloud strategists meet and greet, collaborate and congregate, participate and party!
In first nine months of 2014, after 1,922 confirmed incidents, criminals managed to compromise 904 million records. Many of the incidents reported in 2014 were record setting, including twenty of them that resulted in the compromise of more than a million records each.
Steve Ragan | 18 Nov | Read more
Signal-to-noise ratios are hard to manage. As a security professional, you want the threat data, you want the attack notifications and alerts, and you need intelligence. But, when there's too much coming in, those alerts and notifications fall to the wayside. They're easily dismissed and ignored.
Steve Ragan | 30 May | Read more
As a nation, we have certainly faced our fair share of disasters lately; flooding in Queensland and Victoria, cyclones in Queensland and massive bush fires in Western Australia — just months after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch. Our hearts certainly goes out to all of the people affected by these disasters but I personally feel the pain of all the IT professionals who are, or will be, working tirelessly to bring IT systems back on-line in order to maintain some form of business continuity in these affected areas.
Allan Davies | 12 Feb | Read more
Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Pandemics? Tsunamis? Are these the stuff of business continuity? Gartner has issued several papers covering major disasters such as the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on business travel, admitting that “few, if any, businesses plan for a volcanic ash disruption scenario”, which is probably the understatement of the year.
Tim Mendham | 06 Sep | Read more
Axon wanted to win more business by reaching out to CIOs and key technology decision makers with more flexible, affordable and easy-to-manage disaster recovery solutions.
