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WHY YOU SHOULD ADD CYBER-RESILIENCE TO YOUR BUSINESS FUNCTIONS
Colorado-based Don Boxley , Co-founder and CEO , DH2i , tells us how companies can achieve the ambitious vision of pairing cyber-resilience and business functions .
What do you get when you pair cyberresilience with security and profitability ? In short , nothing less than the top goals of businesses in every industry .
A recent McKinsey & Company report emphasized how cyber-resilience combined with business functions provides organizations with ‘ a more secure and profitable institution .’
Rather than relying on the ‘ Frankenstein ’ method , a more effective solution is Smart Availability software , which runs on top of SQL Server .
But while those facts are clear , what ’ s less transparent is how companies can best achieve this ambitious vision .
The cyber-resilience equation
High availability ( HA ) and Disaster Recovery ( DR ) are often misunderstood , but they are not the same thing . Ensuring just one or the other won ’ t provide an enterprise with cyber-resilience ; both are needed . In other words , HA + DR = cyber-resilience .
Some definitions are in order to really grasp the distinction between these two functions :
• High availability : A database ’ s ability , along with its associated services , to continue to operate without failing while offering an agreed service level ( SLA ) of operational uptime .
• Disaster Recovery : The ability to recover data and / or databases while maintaining and regaining services on the heels of an outage or catastrophic event .
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