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...The backup controller, the reinforcement in case of emergency, did not even turn up for work. Worst of all, management knew about the practice, but ignored it to maintain “social peace”....
...The blockages have the potential to ripple back into the North American rail network, threatening backups that could require some goods to be destroyed, said Bernstein analyst David Vernon....
...The conundrum is that the greater the overall share of renewables in the energy mix, the more customers will have to spend on these largely redundant backups....
...For example, victims should check whether they have data backups, or other ways to get critical services up and running....
...The NCSC advises cyber attack targets to never pay a ransom but instead rely on backups and costly efforts to recover lost data....
...Even as healthcare organisations become better at protecting themselves from one type of attack, such as ransomware — by restoring locked data from backups, for example — cyber criminals switch tactics....
...Make security solutions standard “Multi-factor authentication (MFA), regular software patching and backups, antivirus solutions, and security awareness training . . . should be standard in any organisation...
...Implementing an effective incident response plan that defines “clear roles, communication protocols and backups” and teaching employees how to spot cyber attacks are key steps in strengthening national infrastructure...
...Moreover, the point of a bank run is to be first, not to have backup. Your incentive as a runner — whether retail or institutional — is not to broadcast it on Twitter....
...“Our strategy is just to put it as an option for the house for redundant backup if you want it,” he tells me....
...Often, people nominate their spouse as the first decision maker, and the grown children (over 18) as the backups....
...England fielded GM Dan Fernandez, 28, and five IMs in their teens or early twenties, as the English Chess Federation gives more opportunities to backup players for its ageing Olympiad team....
...As companies have started relying on backups to prevent being locked out of their data in ransomware incidents, gangs have moved on to hack and leak attacks in recent months....
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...And in some cases, it may be cheaper to pay the ransom than to recover the data or systems from backups....
...Responsible ownership of a social media network necessitates daily backups, layer caching, downtime monitoring, load balancing, and a bunch of techy stuff that probably wouldn’t trouble a person who doesn...
...“That leaves the Army, who are driving the backups here, in a very difficult position — a postcode lottery when it comes to having a heart attack or a stroke when there is a strike on”....
...Former White House supply chain policy adviser Elisabeth Reynolds — who spent much of the past two years sorting out port backups and baby food formula shortages — has left the Biden administration to join...
...The government spent the weekend racing to try to sell SVB UK and put together a backup plan to support the companies who have had deposits trapped in the ailing lender....
...Just as with property insurance, which uses catastrophe bonds, traditional reinsurance and a range of other backups, cyber would need to gain access to all forms of reinsurance capacity, he said, to allow...
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...“Coal and diesel are backups,” Alexander Kamyshin, the outgoing head of the railway group tells me....
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