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Most business disruptions don’t come with warning sirens. Sometimes, it’s just a Monday morning when the internet is down and no one can access customer records. Or a key employee is out unexpectedly, and the only person who knows how to run payroll isn’t available. Or maybe someone deletes the wrong file, and the backup nobody has tested in months turns out to be useless. These disruptions may not look like disasters in the traditional sense, but they stop work, delay cu

Being reactive is rarely a choice. You're busy serving customers, managing employees and keeping daily operations on track. As long as everything is working, proactively planning for a disruption often gets pushed aside. The problem is that disruptions rarely arrive with advance notice. A cyberattack, system outage or hardware failure can quickly expose gaps no one realized existed. Here are five signs your business may be reacting instead of preparing. 1. You Think Abo

Most businesses trust their backups completely, right up until the moment they don’t work. If you’ve never tested yours, you don’t know what you have. You have a file sitting in storage, and you’re assuming it’ll come through when you need it. That’s not a recovery plan. Testing your backups shows whether your systems, files and recovery plans can keep your business running when something goes wrong. Skip the tests, and your first live restore becomes your first live dril

When you hear the word downtime, what comes to mind? You might imagine a major storm, a power grid failure, a data breach or a sophisticated cyberattack . These are dramatic events, and while they do happen, they’re not the most common reasons why work grinds to a halt. In reality, downtime is rarely dramatic. It’s usually something small and ordinary, the kind of issue that doesn’t seem serious at first but still brings work to a standstill. These quiet problems are the on

The dinosaurs never saw their end coming. The same is true for businesses that don’t understand what an extinction-level cyberthreat can do to their business and its future. Cyber incidents have become routine, and all businesses, regardless of their size, are at risk. From AI-powered ransomware to supply chain compromises, today’s cybersecurity threats are smarter and harder to predict. What’s even scarier is that they’re evolving faster than traditional defenses can keep

When you think about cybersecurity, your mind might jump to firewalls, antivirus software or the latest security tools. But let’s take a...

Most businesses today depend on third-party partners. These partners could provide products, services or even expertise that help keep...