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The FAA Outage and the “Cyber Resiliency Gong” That Businesses Need to Hear

  Airiam Field CISO and CIO Art Ocain discusses yesterday’s FAA outage in this short clip. In the video, he looks at how the situation illustrates the dangers of technical debt building up, complex legacy systems, poor documentation, improper backup management, and lack of cyber resiliency planning. Danger of Technical Debt In recent years, there […]

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How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack with Immutable Backups

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise over the last decade, and businesses have failed to find a one-size-fits-all approach to eliminating the threat. Prevention is better than cure, but with criminal hackers are tenacious and flexibility, it’s not realistic to expect cybersecurity defenses alone to do the trick—you need a plan for how you’ll

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Patching in VMware

  VMware is Frequent Attack Target Cybercriminals have been targeting VMware and vCenter more than ever, exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities with ease. Without high availability redundancies in place to facilitate patching, organizations can be particularly exposed to serious cyber risks resulting from their inability to update or secure systems quickly enough. As such companies must

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Why Data Backups Are Important (And How to Do Them Right)

Most businesses know data backups are important, but they still treat them as an afterthought. However, backups aren’t just important—they’re essential.  Losing your system data isn’t just an annoyance or a setback. It could break your business overnight. You might not be able to restore functionality, and customers will lose trust in your company. Customers

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Recent Tech Layoffs Sharply Increase Insider Cybersecurity Threat

Video Overview As Layoffs Abound, HR and IT Teams Must Collaborate to Deter Insider Cyber Threats Airiam, a managed IT and cybersecurity company with a strong focus on cyber resilience, today revealed an increased risk of insider cybersecurity breaches due to tens of thousands of recent layoffs in the technology sector. As part of Airiam’s

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Explained: FTC Safeguards Rule Compliance Deadline Delayed

Many companies are facing personnel shortages and supply chain issues that make the December 2022 FTC Safeguard Rule compliance deadline difficult. In response to the current situation and industry lobbying, the FTC extended the compliance deadline to June 9, 2023. While companies might be breathing a sigh of relief, they shouldn’t ignore the vital safety

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Cyber Resilience vs. Cybersecurity: Key Differences

Cyber resilience and cybersecurity get bunched together in discussions around digital protection, but they are two separate philosophies. Both are important to understand and implement in your organization. There are overlaps in the implementation of both concepts. At a basic level, cybersecurity establishes a proactive defense against hackers by producing barriers to entry and mitigating

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Cyber Resilience Framework: How to Develop a Resilience Strategy

Your cyber resilience framework defines the techniques and processes your business uses to protect its sensitive data, services, and uptime. Frameworks will vary depending on your geographic operations, industry, and datasets, but many of the fundamentals and best practices apply universally. Every business should be striving toward cyber resilience, but it’s not an overnight transformation—nor

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What is a Chief Resilience Officer? (And What Do They Do?)

We can’t stress enough to our clients that it’s not a matter of if but when they’ll face a cyberattack. It’s not just large companies that face threats—small and medium companies face risks too. Smaller organizations often lack staff and security resources, leaving them more vulnerable, thinking an attack won’t happen to them. Last year,

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