Executives are responsible for handling the risk management oversight for their companies. They’re also responsible for directing the implementation of crisis management when an event takes place.
When Disaster Strikes, Are Your Records Safe?
Storing data off-site as part of a well-thought-out disaster recovery plan will help reduce down time if a disaster strikes. If your company was damaged by a fire, earthquake, flood, employee sabotage or hackers would it continue? According to the University of Texas, 94% of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss do not survive. […]
Fraud and phishing warnings reach email inboxes
We live in a digital world where we do our banking, search for recipes and freely communicate with family and friends online. Sometimes we fail to consider just how much information is available on the Web. Earlier this month it was announced that possibly millions of email addresses and names were stolen from one of […]
The dangerous game of relying too much on the Internet
Do you have a Gmail, Apple, Yahoo or MSN email account? Do you rely on your e-mail data to be available whenever you need it? Just a few weeks ago someone at Google inadvertently deleted some 150,000 Gmail accounts (read about it on CNN Money). The company scrambled to restore the data, which they did, believe […]
Disgruntled Fannie Mae worker tried to destroy servers
According to documents filed in the US District Court for Maryland, a Fannie Mae worker who had been terminated attempted to: …cause damage to Fannie Mae’s computer network by entering malicious code that was intended to execute on January 31, 2009. The worker was a contractor who worked at Fannie Mae’s data center in Urbana, […]