All news with #business continuity tag

Integrating Business Continuity and Cybersecurity Strategies

🔐 Executives must treat cybersecurity and business continuity as a unified discipline rather than separate functions. Drawing on six years managing high-availability systems at Amazon, the author warns that attackers increasingly target recovery and backup infrastructure, turning outages into leverage. The article advocates network segmentation, air-gapped and offline backups, and integrated incident-response and recovery testing to protect operations and reputation.

MSP Cybersecurity Readiness: Turn Security Into Growth

🔒 The Hacker News guide helps MSPs evaluate readiness to expand into advanced cybersecurity and compliance services. It highlights two essential dimensions — mindset and operational readiness — and provides a practical checklist covering service definition, staffing, tools, processes, sales capability, and financial planning. The guide reframes security as a business enabler rather than a technical checkbox.

Path to CPS Resilience: Securing Critical Infrastructure

🔒 Cyber-physical systems (CPS) underpin critical infrastructure across industry, healthcare and buildings, and their continuous availability is essential to public safety and business continuity. The article urges CISOs to prioritize CPS security, invest in OT protection, close long-standing IT–OT silos and maintain accurate asset inventories. It highlights that many organizations lack OT incident response or business continuity plans and emphasizes that rapid recovery, segmentation and tested emergency procedures are key to minimizing downtime and harm. Analysts warn of steep recovery times and severe financial and human impacts if CPS resilience is not improved.

From CISO to Chief Risk Architect: Rethinking Cybersecurity

🔐 The article argues that the traditional CISO role must evolve into a Chief Risk Architect, shifting focus from purely technical controls to enterprise resilience and business continuity. It emphasizes anticipating disruptions, minimizing operational impact, and demonstrating recovery capabilities to regulators, partners, and shareholders. Required skills now include risk quantification, ERM, threat detection, geopolitical awareness, and fluency with regulations like NIS2, DORA and the AI Act. It also stresses reporting to the board or CEO to gain strategic influence and attract future talent.

Six steps for disaster recovery and business continuity

🔒 Modernize disaster recovery and continuity with six practical steps for CISOs. Secure executive funding and form a cross-functional team, map risks and locate data across cloud, SaaS, OT, and edge devices, and conduct a Business Impact Analysis to define a Minimal Viable Business (MVB). Evolve backups to 3-2-1-1-0 with immutable or air-gapped copies, adopt BaaS/DRaaS and AI-driven tools for discovery and autonomous backups, and run realistic, gamified tests followed by post-mortems.

Modern Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Basics

🛡️ Modern disaster recovery and business continuity require a ground-up rebuild to address distributed data, evolving cyberthreats, climate-driven disruptions, and strict breach-reporting obligations. Key elements include executive sponsorship, standing interdisciplinary teams, AI-assisted discovery and classification, continuous and immutable backups aligned with a 3-2-1-1-0 approach, and the design of a minimum viable business to restore core functions. Frequent, gamified tabletop exercises and automated validation complete a resilient program.

Resilient Network Security Strategies for Disruption

🔒 In a world where pandemics, war, and natural disasters are inevitable, security teams must plan for continuity. The article examines two primary approaches: scaling VPN capacity for remote access or adopting a SASE framework that integrates networking and security as a cloud-delivered service. Each option has trade-offs in cost, complexity, and operational risk; readiness requires assessing user patterns, threat exposure, and recovery objectives.