Sailpoint

APRIL 1, 2019

Around World Backup Day, you may read many pieces advocating the wisdom of securely backing up your data. I’d like to take a slightly different approach by encouraging us all to contemplate a world in which no viable backups exist. There’s no need for a backup of critical data, secured with identity.” If I could reach the stars.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This exercise consists of iterations through each one of them while understanding its differences. Backup service repository. It defines the age limit for the last data backup before the downtime event. Backup and Restore. The code is publicly available on the links below, with how-to-use documentation. Pilot Light.

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Coding Horror

JUNE 2, 2017

Automated weekly backups are set up for you out of the box, too. I'm not the world's foremost expert on backups for nothing, man! To mitigate this threat, we've slowly tightened restrictions around Discourse backups in various ways: Administrators have a minimum password length of 15 characters. It's the ultimate prize.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.” As part of this exercise, organizations need to prepare adequate response plans and enforce the requisite best practices to bring the business back online.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Evaluating if the project will allow the company to increase revenues or replace an aging system that will ultimately save costs over time is a necessary exercise in eliminating projects that don’t move the needle,” he says. “A

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is essential to continuously push the envelope – conducting the same “paper-based” annual tabletop exercise to simply check the box is not enough. Organizations should explore tactical exercises that aim to specifically target the most critical assets – chipping away at defensive capabilities and controls.

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 13, 2021

Do you have backups ? Are backups of your most critical data offline and offsite? Have you tested restoration and confirmed your backups work as expected? Have you run simulations and pen tests and validated your detection and response capabilities processes? The post When Should You Protect Against Ransomware?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But if you do your planning exercise properly, you shouldn’t have to move your applications around,” he says. Moving an app across clouds is expensive because you also need to move the associated data, and data egress is a very costly exercise,” says Nag. One big reason: they’re often locked into their chosen provider’s ecosystem.

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Lacework

MARCH 22, 2022

Keep your systems updated, have a strong backup strategy, use modern security tools which continuously monitor environments, enable multi-factor authentication, and more. One of the steps stood out in particular: “Run exercises and drill your emergency plans so that you are prepared to respond quickly to minimize the impact of any attack.”.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

When we were designing the workshop, I said to Gien that I like the idea of a puzzle, and it would be great to have it large and always visible, but how can we do that when there are a number of exercises? In this exercise, teams break up the large domain into sub-domains. The ability to design exercises in Miro is out of this world.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 23, 2023

This means that the traditional advice of maintaining backups is no longer sufficient. Organizations have improved their ability to create and recover from backups, especially given redundancy capabilities in the cloud. In general, the cyber insurance industry will only insure an organization that shows evidence of data backups.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Businesses should formalize a plan and run tabletop exercises to test their plan to ensure that they’ve covered everything. Backup and Recovery – Backing up a company’s data is a smart decision, especially in the ransomware era. Companies have several options to do it, like using an on-premises backup server.

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 2, 2021

Alleviate some of that stress and save money by testing your Incident Response Plan via Tabletop Exercises or interactive scenario-driven sessions, at least two times a year. Make sure to include a “Lessons Learned” hot wash after any testing exercises to identify what Incident Response methods worked well, and what could use some work.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Some of the critical business solutions that UEM and RMM integrate seamlessly with are: Professional service automation (PSA) tools IT documentation tools Data backup and recovery tools Ticket management tools. Many cyberattacks could be prevented if employees exercised caution. This section introduces you to some of them.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Businesses should formalize a plan and run tabletop exercises to test their plan to ensure that they’ve covered everything. Backup and Recovery – Backing up a company’s data is a smart decision, especially in the ransomware era. Companies have several options to do it, like using an on-premises backup server.

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The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They include four broad categories: (a) PostgreSQL test suite , (b) regression tests to validate output for basic and complex SQL, © isolation tests to stress behavior of concurrent sessions, and (d) failure tests that exercise failures (for example, network failures). These tests run against different versions of Postgres and Citus.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2023

Deepa Soni, CIO, The Hartford The Hartford “Fruitful Fridays” carve out time for staffers to participate in training and agile sprint exercises while regular hackathons (winners highlighted in town hall meetings) create an emphasis on innovation and creativity.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It also covers topics such as open-source applications, how to work with command lines, creating and resorting compressed backup and archives, and creating and running simple scripts. The course covers the basics of Java and what it is, as well as exercises that help you better understand object-oriented programming using the Java language.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This would have been hellishly expensive, so we brought all services that were impacted by licensing restrictions back on-prem and pulled all our SQL servers back, which was a costly exercise because we had to purchase new equipment, and the rest of the applications ran in the cloud. Do your due diligence.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 22, 2024

Get the Backup Your Team Needs There is no one solution. A Unit 42 Retainer can give you the expertise and backup you need. We’ll help your team prepare through exercises and simulations that keep them sharp. Almost any security control can be overcome by a sufficiently motivated, skilled and resourced attacker.

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Linux Academy

MAY 13, 2019

We can always just restore from a backup and be up and running in a few hours. One way to practice is to perform table-top exercises where the entire IRT comes to the table and walks through an incident. Each step is documented in the incident response form as the exercise is played out. Incident Response Wrap-Up.

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2024

Production failures such as incomplete backups and restores, coding errors/rework, and missed deadlines may be included in this category. E-commerce operations typically have extremely aggressive SLAs at all times; 99.999 percent uptime is a not uncommon requirement for a site that generates millions of dollars an hour.

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xmatters

JULY 2, 2024

Containment strategies, such as switching to backup systems or rolling back recent changes, help prevent further damage and provide time for decision-making. This exercise helps SoftwareCo refine its incident response plan, enhance its defenses against future cyber threats, and ensure a more resilient security posture.

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Apps Associates

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Capsule summary: Re-architect, migrate and re-platform complex Oracle E-Business Suite ERP environment from IBM AIX to AWS including multiple environments (production, non-production) with disaster recovery and backup, configuration of license manager. Beachbody, LLC, sells home exercise videos and dietary supplements.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Always exercise caution when performing operations on production instances and ensure that you have backups or snapshots before making changes. This process involves correcting the /etc/fstab file on the root volume by mounting it on a rescue instance.

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Tandem

JULY 26, 2023

Tabletop Exercises Help to Play the Tape Forward Preparing for potential problems is a critical aspect of building resilience. Outage rehearsals can involve tabletop exercises, simulations, or even real-life drills. By analyzing these metrics, teams can identify trends, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Another exercise to undertake before going live would be Security Hardening – the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is high for systems that perform more functions like Sitecore. How do you do backups and restore them? Do you have a Disaster Recovery plan in place and was it tested?

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During a recent bill reduction exercise , we found significant savings in running our API service on Spot, and now look to use it wherever we can. Among the many benefits of this approach is that our deploy system is regularly exercised, and our services undergo restarts all the time. At Honeycomb, we’re big fans of AWS Spot Instances.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 22, 2024

Get the Backup Your Team Needs There is no one solution. A Unit 42 Retainer can give you the expertise and backup you need. We’ll help your team prepare through exercises and simulations that keep them sharp. Almost any security control can be overcome by a sufficiently motivated, skilled and resourced attacker.

Malware 52

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Kaseya

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Let’s patch things up Although the cornerstone of any security exercise is patching, many companies fail to implement a robust patch strategy. In this blog, you’ll find useful tips and tricks for using a best-in-class RMM like VSA to avoid a ransomware-induced IT heartbreak.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

You can gauge their readiness and improve their awareness with simulated phishing exercises. Prepare a disaster recovery plan and take regular backups If a security breach occurs or a system fails, your data may be lost. Therefore, regular backups of critical data and systems should be automated.

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Coforge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

They would also hasten to add that these diverse varieties tend to coexist despite innumerable strategic reviews, consolidation, and streamlining exercises that they ambitiously involve their organizations in. Most experienced enterprise IT managers readily attest to the fact that infrastructure comes in many form factors and flavors.

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Brainvire

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Backup Data Regularly. In fact, due to the growing demand of cybersecurity, the US government is already providing online self-paced training exercise to clear the basic concepts and doubts related to cybersecurity. Backup Data Regularly. Setup A Firewall. Install Anti-malware Software. Update Cybersecurity Policies.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The public cloud setup gives users access to comprehensive IT resources like virtual machines, computing power, application storage and data backup over the internet without requiring them to maintain the hardware themselves. When using cloud services, users must exercise all cybersecurity precautions. Compliance maintenance.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

However, this should be a living document that you routinely review and conduct tabletop exercises against. . We recommend conducting the following tabletop exercise scenarios within your organization with key stakeholders: Ransomware. Cyber Extortion. Information Stealing stolen or leaked information.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Many parents may have considered late pickups as socially inappropriate and would therefore go through great lengths to avoid them (leaving work early, scrambling for backup coverage, etc). Here are a few recommendations that might help: Run experiments and exercise your optionality. But if you pay us the fine you are forgiven.

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Capgemini

AUGUST 8, 2019

Additionally, even cold wallets provide a secret backup code to retrieve the keys and funds in the event the cold wallet is lost. The mere existence of a secret backup code, in whatever form it may take, whether it’s written down on a piece of paper or otherwise, means you may have already displaced the physical existence of keys.

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