When a business suffers a cybersecurity disaster, one of the most long-lasting, detrimental effects comes in the form of downtime, or a loss of business operations and profits. A lack of disaster recovery planning can result in a chain of events that turns a minor cybersecurity event into a data breach and resultant catastrophic business disaster. Many small and medium-sized businesses simply don’t have the disaster recovery planning in place to survive even a partial loss of data and IT functionality for a short time, much less the related fall-out and loss of revenue that results from a full-blown data breach. (more…)

In today’s volatile cybersecurity climate, businesses seem to be fighting a losing battle when it comes to defending against cyberattack. Organizations of all sizes are vulnerable to threats, incidents, and social engineering techniques—and when they don’t have the right defense systems in place, those threats and incidents often become a full-blown catastrophic data breach. (more…)

When it comes to disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity capabilities, a business’s cyber resilience can mean the difference between staying up-and-running and being completely shut down during a disaster. A comprehensive disaster response as-a-service strategy (DRaaS) is a critical factor in your organization’s cyber resiliency. To maintain functionality and avoid extensive downtime during a natural, human, or hardware disaster, a disaster response plan will first identify which essential functions a business can live without—and for how long. Effective DRaaS planning will help your business outline how being without critical data will affect your customers, your revenue, and ultimately, your business’s future. (more…)

Learn how the North American Stamping Group (NASG), a manufacturing organization with multiple facilities throughout North America created a modern and centralized infrastructure in the Canadian cloud. (more…)