Posts Tagged ‘disaster recovery’
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Were you surprised to hear about the worker at the Chicago O’Hare airport last Friday? Certainly I was. Who would have ever thought someone working in the control center would light the hardware on fire, and then try to commit suicide? Unimaginable, right? However, what I was more surprised about was that there was no roll-over contingency operations center in place in the event something catastrophe took out the O’Hare operations center. After all, Chicago is in an area with a wide range of weather events, from blizzards and ice to severe storms and tornadoes, and everything in between. Not to mention that all airports are considered to be a target of a wide number of terrorist groups.
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Tags:BCP, business continuity, business resiliency, Chicago O’Hare, compliance documentation, data protection law, disaster recovery, documentation, DR, DR/BCP, facebook, IBM, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, marketing, midmarket, O’Hare fies, privacy, privacy law, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, social media, twitter
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I’ve been in Vermont this week at the Norwich University MSIA residency week.
It was storming and treacherous with tornadoes when I left my Iowa home on Sunday morning, and it took me two days to get to Vermont because of flight cancellations. Now I’m sitting at the Burlington, VT airport wondering if I will be able to make it home tonight, where Iowa is still experiencing horrific weather, and has sadly seen the tragedy of a tornado, last night, killing four and wounding close to fifty boy scouts at a wilderness camp there.
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Tags:awareness and training, BCP, business continuity, disaster recovery, DR, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, risk management, security training
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Today, “Internet failure hits two continents”
Were you impacted? If you were, then you probably aren’t reading this right now… 🙂
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Tags:awareness and training, BCP, business continuity planning, CNN, disaster recovery, DRP, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Today, “Internet failure hits two continents”
Were you impacted? If you were, then you probably aren’t reading this right now… 🙂
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Tags:awareness and training, BCP, business continuity planning, CNN, disaster recovery, DRP, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Here is another example of what a worker, entrusted with access to business files, can do…and also provides a lesson about business continuity…
I just watched a CNN clip, “Cyber Sabotage” that provides a very good example of how costly the insider threat can be.
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Tags:awareness and training, backups, business continuity, CNN, disaster recovery, Information Security, insider threat, IT compliance, Marie Cooley, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training, SMBs, Steven E. Hutchins Architects
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Here is another example of what a worker, entrusted with access to business files, can do…and also provides a lesson about business continuity…
I just watched a CNN clip, “Cyber Sabotage” that provides a very good example of how costly the insider threat can be.
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Tags:awareness and training, backups, business continuity, CNN, disaster recovery, Information Security, insider threat, IT compliance, Marie Cooley, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training, SMBs, Steven E. Hutchins Architects
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
As I was reading this week’s issue of Time magazine I found a backup lesson given by Francis Ford Coppola!
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Tags:awareness and training, backup, disaster recovery, Francis Ford Coppola, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, privacy, risk management, security risk, security training
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
I love my dialup! Yes, I mean dialup Internet connection. I’ve been on a broadband wireless connection via a satellite on my roof for a little over a year, but I kept my dialup account just in case I ever needed a backup. Today I needed a backup.
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Tags:awareness and training, corporate governance, Cutter Consortium, dialup, disaster recovery, emergency management, emergency planning, Information Security, IT compliance
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Ever since talk of the bird flu pandemic started making the news in 2005, information assurace folks have talked about how this could affect them and their efforts. There have been some very interesting viewpoints and insights. Most related to the loss of availability of personnel needed for the business to continue to function, loss of access to vendors, and to outsourced entities, and other emergency management and disaster recovery issues.
When you start thinking about it and brainstorming with your colleagues you discover there truly are many related information assurance issues.
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Tags:awareness and training, bird flu, corporate governance, disaster recovery, emergency management, government, HHS, Information Security, IT compliance privacy, pandemic
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