Business Continuity Is Your Website Vulnerable? April 24, 2014 by Drew Mazurek The recent Heartbleed bug that compromised OpenSSL – a key component for secure access to servers on the internet – has greatly heightened the need for internet security awareness. Read more »
Business Continuity Weathering Storms, Preventing Breaches – IT Emergencies & Security March 5, 2014 by Veoci Staff Team Contribution The structure of crisis response is often the same for any given type of situation. Our past experiences with system outages and security breaches in the Information Technology sector, and our current experiences with natural disasters and events like Hurricane Sandy, have proven this. Read more »
Business Continuity Information Emergencies – Sharing with Teams & the Public February 20, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Weather emergencies, such as the recent spate of snowstorms that clobbered the Eastern United States, are also information emergencies. By that I mean that all of the stakeholders - local governments, utility companies, emergency responders, and public citizens - are in need of accurate, timely information, which isn't always forthcoming. Read more »
Business Continuity Small and Medium-sized Business Continuity Plan (BCP) – Communications Key to Preparedness & Resilience December 3, 2013 by Addison Shaw In an earlier blog post we examined how weather and other disasters have a severe impact on small & medium-sized businesses, who often do not have the resources to dedicate to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) as many large corporations do. Read more »
Business Continuity Small and Medium-Sized Business Continuity Planning (BCP) – The Difficulties of Staying Afloat November 13, 2013 by Keith Basile When storms approach, many of us prepare for the worst. Shelves at grocery stores are barren, gas pumps are tapped, and generators are sold out. Read more »
Business Continuity Healthcare Sympathy for HealthCare.gov October 30, 2013 by Sukh Grewal Comedians, commentators, and politicians are having a field day with the problems at healthcare.gov. As software developers and computer operations experts, part of us is just not laughing. Read more »
Business Continuity Twitter Outages: Clear Markers of Success October 10, 2013 by Sukh Grewal With the Twitter IPO in the news, it is timely to see how a great site like Twitter manages to stay up so well. For many years Twitter had quite a poor reputation for reliability. Read more »
Business Continuity After the Panic, Between Outages October 4, 2013 by Sukh Grewal These days, network and system outages are mainstream news headlines. When IT infrastructures go down, so do all the sites and applications that depend on them, and a ripple of annoyance turns into frustration, disgruntlement and lost productivity. Read more »