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: Disaster Recovery
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reflections on 2018
In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…