When was the last time you company’s ability to recover accidentally lost information was tested?
Effective business management is what allows operation to continue in situations of crises generated by technological interruptions in operation. Every business must have a technological backup in the event of an emergency.
Mauricio Solano in his article in Elfinancierocr.com details the key factors that organizations should consider:
From 21st to 22nd May the Latin American Conference on Business Continuity and Information Security will take place in Costa Rica.
National and international experts will analyze and discuss the key pieces to improving the business continuity program, technologies and data integrity in businesses. This will take place during the Second Latin American Conference on Business Continuity and Information Security to be held in Costa Rica on 21st and 22nd May at the Hotel Radisson Europa.
The theft of information such as user names and passwords, credit card and bank account information has extended its scope to mobile communications.
A variant of ‘phishing’ attacks which targets users of personal computers, ‘smishing’ uses social engineering techniques to obtain sensitive information for criminal purposes, using mainly text messages sent to cell phones.
This decade will see governments, organized crime and individuals declare cyber war on companies' information.
Computer fraud is now a full time business for many, whether it be for profit or in an attempt to achieve a competitive advantage. Governments regularly acuse each other of cyber foul play and institutions are having to take ever more drastic measures to protect themselves.
Among users of online banking services, 73% use the same password for their bank accounts as for other minimum security web sites.
Furthermore, 47% of all people use the same combination of username and password in all the sites that require so.
This is very dangerous. Hackers and online thieves are profiting from this bad practice. They steal IDs and passwords in lower security sites, and proceed to use them to access online banking sites.
Data center complexity, numerous applications, and disaster recovery plan issues are top concerns.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 11, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study. Now in its third year, the study found that mid-sized enterprises (2,000 to 9,999 employees) are more likely to adopt cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization, and continuous data protection than small or large enterprises to reduce IT costs and manage increasing complexity. Further, mid-sized enterprise data centers show more activity, with more IT managers predicting major changes to the data center and new applications in 2010. Mid-sized enterprises also place a higher importance on staffing and training than their small or large enterprise counterparts. The study is based on surveys of 1,780 data center managers in 26 countries in November 2009.
Protecting what matters: the sixth annual Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Financial Services Industry (GFSI) Practice information security survey.
The goal of the 6th Annual Global Security Survey for financial institutions is to help respondents assess and understand the state of information security within their organization relative to comparable financial institutions around the world.