The Difference Between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity PLan

This video talks about the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It explains how merely having back-ups is not enough for companies, the need for business continuity planning and having a disaster recovery site cannot be over emphasised. Legally companies are required to prepare for disasters efficiently. It also explains why the responsibility…

Reflection on BusinessQldGov Webinar: Business Continuity Planning

I watched a webinar on business continuity planning conducted by Yvette Adams for BusinessQld Gov .A business continuity plan is a management process that identifies potential threats and impacts within an organisation, providing a framework for building resilience and the capability for efficiently respond when disaster occurs. She defined Resilience as the ability to prevent,…

Reflection on Managed Network Webcast on Information Security

After watching the Managed network Webcast on Information Security conducted by company’s CEO Mr Ben Rapp, I was exposed to the notion that information Security is 3 dimensional and these dimensions include: Confidentiality: In the webcast Mr Rapp talked about “Privacy” in the sense that business need to restrict access to important information and focus…

IT SECURITY STRATEGIES FOR SME’s

SME Managers often equate have firewall and updating antivirus software as having security. Strategy policies and business continuity plans are more or less invisible in these organisations. Many SME’s do not consider themselves possible targets for hackers and often neglect the threats of corporate espionage and therefore deem IT security as low priority. To improve…

Smart, Simple and Secure Management Options for SME’s

Information security within SME’s is a big problem for many reasons including limited resources and managers not devoting enough time and attention to security concerns. SME’s traditionally use solutions from multiple vendors which can have major gaps leaving them vulnerable to attacks. Security consultants and vendors advice that a simple solution single provider be used.…

The Hybrid Approach to System Security for SME’s

Data encryption is an important element of organisations response to security threats, a paper titled “A Hybrid Approach to System Security for SME’s: combining different cryptography techniques” and written by Georgiana Mateescu and Marius Vladescu of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, proposes a Hybrid approach(using three levels of cryptography) for information security for SME’s.…