Why Planning for a Disaster Can Save Your Business

Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are unpleasant but necessary precautions to protect your company in the event of a disaster. And in today’s world, disasters come in all shapes and sizes. Whether your company is big or small, you should make a disaster recovery plan today. https://pixabay.com/en/error-www-keyboard-tap-type-in-102074/ Types of Threats In a digital context, the term “disaster” refers to virtually any threat to the integrity or privacy of a company’s data. The term encompasses a multitude of digital threats (hackers, spyware, viruses, etc.), as well as human error, system breakdown, environmental factors such as a building fire or water leakage, and much more. These threats can last an hour…

Why Healthcare Organizations are Moving Disaster Recovery Measures to the Cloud

Disaster Recovery

According to new research from the Ponemon Institute, healthcare organizations are the target of about one cyberattack per month. The researchers found that almost half of the 535 healthcare IT and IT security practitioners surveyed experienced a breach involving loss or exposure of patient information in the past year. The most common types of cyberattacks on healthcare organizations resulted from system failures, unsecured medical devices, identity theft and unsecured mobile devices.   Because of the critical and very private information that healthcare organizations keep on hand, a good disaster recovery plan is an absolute necessity. In fact, since 1996, HIPAA has required that healthcare organizations maintain a disaster recovery plan…

What to Do if Your Law Firm has Been Hacked

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Just a couple months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that hackers broke into several prestigious law firms, including Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Law firms’ computer systems hold a wealth of information of special interest to hackers, such as trade secrets, information about clients—especially large, corporate clients—and other sensitive information. These breaches in security are usually characterized by large amounts of information being stolen at once and then analyzed later. Fortunately, if you’ve discovered your law firm has been attacked, recovery is possible.   Even if your law firm hasn’t been hacked yet, chances are it will be. That’s why it’s important to…