New Business Continuity Lessons for Banks – and Others Too?
Businesses can’t function if they don’t have customers. When customers find other solutions and move away, it’s therefore a threat to business continuity. Conventional banks may be at risk if a new development in online-only banking takes off. Startup ‘Simple’ (that’s the company’s name) for instance is giving clients an innovative alternative. Its solution is […]
DIY Phishing has a Message for Business Continuity
Think you need advanced computer skills to set up a phoney bank website and fool people into giving you their money? Think again. DIY phishing is now on offer in kit form. Someone who knows how to set up a personal website or even a Facebook page probably has the level of knowhow required to […]
The Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Comes of Age
Not everybody chooses the cloud as the first option for backing up data. Despite the advantages of practically limitless storage area, pay-as-you-go pricing and resilience, a weak point for the cloud is the network speed for uploading or downloading all those gigabytes (terabytes, petabytes…). The alternative for organisations is to put their own solution in […]
The Internet of Things and Big Data – Both Looking for a Killer App
Despite the publicity given to Big Data and (to a lesser extent) the Internet of Things, their practical advantage has yet to be clarified. It’s difficult to think of them in terms of business continuity when they don’t influence the fortunes of an enterprise; unless you count the negative impact of money spent investigating them. […]
The importance of Network Security in Disaster Recovery Planning
There is no question that technology today forms the core of business. In their role of facilitating transactions and storing sensitive data—the data of both the staff of the company and the stored data of the clients—the systems and networks of companies are increasingly under siege. This makes data both the most precious asset to […]
The Perils of the Password – How to Protect Your Business Continuity
How many passwords do you have? How many can you remember – and what do you do about the others? Business and consumer life is controlled to a significant degree by passwords. It’s a balancing act between making them memorable (for their rightful owners) without opening the door to password abuse or theft. The business […]