In case of emergency

The number of words that will be written about the CrowdStrike incident in the coming weeks and months will undoubtedly…

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Understanding Cyber Resilience

It used to be that topics like cyber resilience were dropped in the IT security bucket. And it’s true that…

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Bad Things Happen

Bad Things Happened at OVH If you work in infrastructure, you probably saw some reference in the last week to…

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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…

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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…

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Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection

So, the other night, my husband and I finally got around to watching San Andreas, the 2015 movie featuring Dwayne…

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Start with “Why?”

Introduction I admit, I’m riffing on Simon Sinek’s Start with Why? for the title of my blog post here, but…

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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…

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Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?

Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…

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Reflections on 2018

In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…

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