Does your business have a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) plan? If you do have one, when was it last updated? Depending on the answer to either of these questions, your systems and data could be at serious risk. Lacking a BDR plan means you could lose all of your data after a single disastrous fire, flood, hardware failure, or cyberattack.
Essential considerations for creating an effective backup and disaster recovery plan
5 Key components of a disaster recovery plan
Businesses today rely heavily on electronic data and IT systems to operate efficiently and effectively. Losing access to such data and IT systems could have a significant negative impact, disrupting productivity, causing revenue losses, and incurring additional expenses.
Top tips for building a strong business continuity plan
Catastrophes may strike at any time without warning, and any firm that's caught unprepared may struggle to get back on its feet. To protect your firm from complete collapse, you need a business continuity plan (BCP).
What is a business continuity plan (BCP)?
A BCP details how a company can stay operational during an unplanned interruption caused by either a natural calamity (e.g., flash flood) or human-made disaster (e.g., ransomcloud attack). Stakeholders and key personnel create this plan in anticipation of such adverse events so that staff members, company data and systems, and physical assets are all protected.
It’s a new year — have you made plans to implement managed detection & response (MDR)?
The new year is a great time to start fresh and implement new strategies for your business. If you haven’t already, we highly suggest adding managed detection and response (MDR) to your cybersecurity strategy.
What is managed detection and response?
MDR is an outsourced service for hunting down and responding to cyberthreats.
New 564 Area Code and 10 Digit Dialing – Western Washington
On May 19th, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) announced that the planned implementation of the 564 overlay area code in Western Washington would take place in the fall of 2017. (more…)