Topic: business continuity

  • Google: Use Workspace When Microsoft 365 Fails

    Google: Use Workspace When Microsoft 365 Fails

    Google's Business Continuity plan provides a parallel Workspace environment that activates during Microsoft 365 outages, enabling seamless transitions to Gmail and Google Meet with synchronized data. The service is positioned as essential preparation for inevitable Microsoft disruptions, using re...

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  • AWS Outage: Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione Explains the Impact

    AWS Outage: Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione Explains the Impact

    The recent AWS outage highlighted that operational resilience requires preparing for both cyber threats and technical infrastructure failures, not just security breaches. The disruption impacted a wide range of services, including Slack, Zoom, and gaming platforms, due to their reliance on AWS, w...

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  • Unlock Operational Resilience with AI Automation

    Unlock Operational Resilience with AI Automation

    Organizations increasingly rely on AI and machine learning for operational resilience, enabling faster responses and recovery from disruptions to protect infrastructure and personnel. AI-driven platforms automate the entire incident lifecycle, from detection to resolution, reducing costs and time...

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  • Absolute Security Rehydrate: Restore Compromised Endpoints Fast

    Absolute Security Rehydrate: Restore Compromised Endpoints Fast

    Absolute Security's Rehydrate enables businesses to remotely restore compromised endpoints at scale, often in under 30 minutes, reducing downtime and maintaining operational continuity during cyber incidents. The tool automates recovery with a single click, restoring devices to a fully functional...

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  • NCSC: Senior Execs Unprepared for Cyber-Attacks

    NCSC: Senior Execs Unprepared for Cyber-Attacks

    UK government and security officials are urging business leaders to take immediate ownership of cybersecurity, emphasizing it is a top-level responsibility and not just a middle-management issue. Senior executives, including CEOs and board members, are ultimately accountable for leading crisis ma...

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  • Google Drive now blocks ransomware with AI

    Google Drive now blocks ransomware with AI

    Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Google Drive for desktop that detects ransomware attacks and helps users recover compromised files with minimal effort. The tool automatically halts file synchronization upon detecting suspicious activity, preventing data encryption and allowing q...

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  • 5 Ways CISOs Can Tackle Cloud Concentration Risk

    5 Ways CISOs Can Tackle Cloud Concentration Risk

    Cloud concentration risk is a major challenge for CISOs, as heavy reliance on a few providers increases exposure to vendor-specific disruptions, regulatory conflicts, and service outages. This risk includes vendor, availability, business continuity, and regulatory aspects, with mitigations like c...

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  • Commvault Revolutionizes Cyberattack Recovery

    Commvault Revolutionizes Cyberattack Recovery

    Commvault's Cleanroom Recovery and Cloud Rewind platforms enable secure, isolated testing and rapid restoration of data and entire cloud applications to combat cyberattacks. An independent study validates that Commvault's solutions reduce recovery times by 99%, accelerate infrastructure rebuildin...

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  • AlertMedia Boosts Incident Response with Better Coordination & Visibility

    AlertMedia Boosts Incident Response with Better Coordination & Visibility

    AlertMedia launched Incident Response, an AI-driven feature to streamline emergency management by addressing coordination challenges during crises like disasters or security breaches. The Incident Response suite centralizes crisis management, enabling teams to activate predefined plans, d...

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  • Stop Hackers Exploiting LOTL Attacks

    Stop Hackers Exploiting LOTL Attacks

    Attackers increasingly use "Living off the Land" (LOTL) techniques, leveraging legitimate system tools like PowerShell to blend malicious activities with normal operations, making detection difficult. Bitdefender's PHASR technology counters LOTL by learning individual user and endpoint behaviors ...

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  • Veeam Unveils New Data Resilience Innovations at GITEX 2025

    Veeam Unveils New Data Resilience Innovations at GITEX 2025

    Veeam Software will showcase its expanded data resilience solutions at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, including the Veeam Data Platform, Veeam Data Cloud, and the new Data Resilience Maturity Model to help organizations combat cyber threats. The company will feature live demonstrations and announcements such...

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  • Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Halt Amid Supply Issues

    Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Halt Amid Supply Issues

    Jaguar Land Rover has extended its production shutdown until October 1, 2025, due to a major cyber-attack, disrupting operations and highlighting cybersecurity risks to manufacturing and supply chains. The prolonged halt threatens the survival of many suppliers and around 200,000 jobs, prompting ...

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  • Bitdefender & CYPFER: End-to-End Cyber Resilience for Businesses

    Bitdefender & CYPFER: End-to-End Cyber Resilience for Businesses

    Bitdefender and CYPFER have partnered to provide end-to-end cyber resilience, integrating incident response, forensic investigation, and rapid recovery into Bitdefender's security portfolio for businesses of all sizes. The collaboration combines Bitdefender's threat detection and intelligence wit...

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  • Genians & RASInfotech: Proven Cybersecurity at GITEX 2025

    Genians & RASInfotech: Proven Cybersecurity at GITEX 2025

    Genians, in partnership with RASInfotech, is advancing Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) adoption and will showcase its capabilities at GITEX 2025, focusing on cybersecurity achievements like visibility and compliance across the MEA region. The collaboration has delivered tangible result...

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  • Apple's Brilliant Anti-PC Ad During CrowdStrike BSOD Crisis

    Apple's Brilliant Anti-PC Ad During CrowdStrike BSOD Crisis

    Apple's new commercial humorously depicts a fictional company overcoming a trade show crisis caused by a PC crash, referencing the real CrowdStrike Falcon software incident that disrupted global services. The ad explains that the outage stemmed from a flawed update in CrowdStrike's kernel-level s...

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  • Interactive, Port Phillip Partner to Future-Proof Community Services

    Interactive, Port Phillip Partner to Future-Proof Community Services

    The City of Port Phillip migrated its aging IT systems from a heritage-listed building to a secure, scalable cloud environment in partnership with Interactive, ensuring uninterrupted community services. The migration overcame infrastructure limitations and included rapid troubleshooting, such as ...

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  • Hiring Now: Top Cybersecurity Jobs for September 2025

    Hiring Now: Top Cybersecurity Jobs for September 2025

    The cybersecurity job market is expanding rapidly due to increasing cyber threats, with high demand for specialized roles across various sectors and countries. Key positions include Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who develop security strategies and manage risk, and other roles like C...

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  • Absolute Security Enhances Platform with AI Assistant & Real-Time Risk Tools

    Absolute Security Enhances Platform with AI Assistant & Real-Time Risk Tools

    Absolute Security has upgraded its Absolute Resilience Platform with an AI-powered assistant and real-time risk management tools, enabling natural-language interactions for faster security assessments and compliance checks. The platform now includes advanced application control and customizable d...

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  • Snowflake Expands to AWS New Zealand to Meet Growing Demand

    Snowflake Expands to AWS New Zealand to Meet Growing Demand

    Snowflake is expanding in New Zealand by deploying a local instance on AWS's new region to address demands for data sovereignty, security, and governance, keeping data onshore while offering scalable AI services. The local instance, operational by the first half of 2026, will allow public and pri...

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  • The Hidden Dangers of a Connected World

    The Hidden Dangers of a Connected World

    Cybersecurity risk has expanded beyond IT to include operational technology, IoT devices, and supply chains, requiring strategies like visibility and network segmentation for management. The risk landscape now centers on control planes and concentrated dependencies, where single points like ident...

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  • Pure Storage Boosts Cyber Resilience with New Innovations & Partnerships

    Pure Storage Boosts Cyber Resilience with New Innovations & Partnerships

    Pure Storage is enhancing cybersecurity by embedding native threat detection into its storage platform and forming strategic partnerships to proactively identify threats and enable faster recovery. The company is integrating with security leaders like CrowdStrike and Superna to provide real-time ...

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  • Jaguar Cyberattack Severely Disrupts Sales and Operations

    Jaguar Cyberattack Severely Disrupts Sales and Operations

    Jaguar Land Rover experienced a major cybersecurity breach that disrupted its sales and manufacturing operations globally. The company took immediate protective measures, including shutting down key systems, and is now working to restore applications with no evidence of customer data compromise. ...

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  • Datadog's Updog Tool Instantly Detects App Downtime

    Datadog's Updog Tool Instantly Detects App Downtime

    Datadog's Updog is a free public dashboard that monitors real-time status of major cloud services like AWS and Slack, enabling quick verification of service disruptions without a subscription. The tool uses artificial intelligence to analyze telemetry data, detecting subtle anomalies and providin...

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