Virtualisation Needs More Than Just a Physical Security Approach
As you bring virtualisation into your IT infrastructure, you may have noticed a few security-related aspects that weren’t present in a purely physical ‘one-app-one-server’ environment.
Crisis Communications and When No News is Not Good News
No news is good news, or so the saying goes. But when equipment malfunctions and services are interrupted, no news can mean intense frustration for customers and end-users.
Business Continuity Benefits – Not Just an Insurance Policy
Business continuity often inspires a feeling of ‘disaster averted’. In other words, the perception is that spending money on business continuity is really an insurance policy, and as such brings no positive benefit, but helps to avoid negative outcomes.
Opening Up Company Systems without Compromising Security
As business shifts more and more to the Internet, enterprises find themselves increasingly driven to provide better access to their IT systems.
Are You Obliged to Use a Risk Management Software Application?
Risk management software identifies the risk associated with different assets. It then communicates this information to the enterprise concerned, for example through business dashboards displayed on screens. While risk is a factor for every organisation, some are bound by regulations to practice and demonstrate good risk management. Banks are a case in point: they must…
Crisis Management and the Growing Role of Social Media
Facebook and Twitter are already used to disseminate information about breakdowns and crises. Public service organisations have begun to use them to as part of their PR strategy for good crisis management. Now there’s a move to use social networks, Twitter in particular, for communication in the opposite direction. In the UK, the London Fire…