Tag Archives: disaster recovery
Pretending about Cybersecurity Risks
October 7, 2019 – 6:00 am
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I have written a couple of columns comparing cybersecurity risk management to managing climate change—one with the title “Cybersecurity Climate Change” (December 10, 2018), and the other “The Cybersecurity Paradox” (June 19, 2019)—and here’s another column on the topic. It was…
Cybersecurity’s “Forward to the Past”
July 10, 2017 – 6:00 am
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On June 21, 2017, Congress received a letter from 103 eminent cybersecurity experts and researchers (the list was compiled by NEDC (The National Election Defense Coalition) and partners) about reducing election hacking risks. You can link to the letter via Zack Wittaker’s article “Security…
Supply Chain Risk Management and Catastrophes
May 16, 2012 – 6:00 am
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The reports of destructive events—natural disasters, accidents, and intentional attacks—just keep on going. We could all guess that the Japanese tsunami of March 11, 2011 would have major impact on manufacturers’ supply chains … but a tornado in Wichita, Kansas and a fire in a plant in…
Storing Books against Digital Disaster
April 2, 2012 – 6:00 am
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It was interesting to read that there is an effort to store physical books so that they will be available in the event that there is a catastrophe that might wipe out all electronic versions or in case the Library of Congress were destroyed. In an article by David Streitfeld, “In a Flood Tide of…
Learned Lessons Are Not the Whole Picture
August 2, 2010 – 6:00 am
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I am certainly a strong proponent of learning from disasters, as asserted in my June 14, 2010 column “Cyber Lessons Learned from the Gulf Oil Catastrophe,” for example. Consequently I felt somewhat vindicated in that view by an article by William J, Broad on the front page of the Science…