In case of emergency
The number of words that will be written about the CrowdStrike incident in the coming weeks and months will undoubtedly…
Category: Business Continuity
Meme Monday
It’s been a while since I’ve done a meme Monday, so let’s get the week started with a light-hearted look…
Understanding Cyber Resilience
It used to be that topics like cyber resilience were dropped in the IT security bucket. And it’s true that…
Bad Things Happen
Bad Things Happened at OVH If you work in infrastructure, you probably saw some reference in the last week to…
Cyber Vaults need Robust Recovery Processes and Documentation
Let’s start with processes When I worked for BHP Information Technology in the 90s, there were travel policies that pretty…
Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability – 2nd Edition
Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on a project that’s very dear to me: creating an updated…
Of Pandemics, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
“In these strange times…” “In these interesting times…” “In these very different times…” “As we come to grips with the…
Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…
Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks
Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…
Basics – The FARR Model
Public Cloud is one of those things that works great until it doesn’t. Now, there’s a lot of reasons why…