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1902, 2014

What is Recovery Time Objective?

By |February 19th, 2014|IT Management, IT Planning, Security|Comments Off on What is Recovery Time Objective?

If your system breaks, how long do you want to be down?  How soon do you need your system back up and running?  Whether it is a week, a day, an hour or one minute, whatever time you establish, that is your RTO or Recovery Time Objective.  Think about what your business needs and you can come up with one component of disaster recovery/business continuity planning, your RTO.  Next up, you need to start thinking about your Recovery Point Objective.

1802, 2014

Warning – Know Thy Back-up – A DR Primer for One Orange County Manufacturer

By |February 18th, 2014|IT Management, IT Planning, Security|Comments Off on Warning – Know Thy Back-up – A DR Primer for One Orange County Manufacturer

Know what you are backing up and know what you need to back-up.They are not always the same thing.During the course of writing this series of blogs on backup and disaster recovery I thought I [...]

1911, 2013

The HIPAAcrisy of Healthcare.gov

By |November 19th, 2013|Healthcare, IT Management, IT Planning, Security|Comments Off on The HIPAAcrisy of Healthcare.gov

Kathleen Sebelius at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday said she is responsible for the problems with Healthcare.gov.  Will she extend her ownership to the violations of privacy regulations? Will she own the pathetic demonstration that political expediency means more to HHS than the commitment to applicants’ privacy?  Will HHS be a little more forgiving the next time another organization gets investigated for a HIPAA breach or will Tavenner and Sebelius be HIPAAcritical?

1411, 2013

CryptoLocker Critical Security Alert

By |November 14th, 2013|Alvaka Blog, Articles|Comments Off on CryptoLocker Critical Security Alert

Critical Security Alert   Please be advised that Alvaka Networks is notifying it's clients and partners of a particularly malicious and destructive form of malware or “Ransomware” referred to as CryptoLocker.  Whereas the vast [...]