Posts tagged business continuity
Be prepared for another Canada Post service stoppage
Jun 30th
Canada’s small businesses learned a tough lesson in business continuity readiness this month when Canada Post locked out its workers and snail mail came to a full stop.
The mail is an essential service for many businesses even in a world where more business is being done electronically all the time. Until 3D printers are combined with quantum tunneling technology by some sort of genius mad scientist to invent teleportation technology, we’re stuck wrapping stuff up in thin brown paper, taping it up, and sending it off in the mail. When your business is in selling physical goods, it doesn’t do you much good to be taking orders online when you can’t fill them.
Brian Jackson, Associate Editor, ITBusiness.ca
G20 Summit: Business data security in the ‘Zone’
Jun 22nd
WHAT’S YOUR RISK FACTOR?
The G20 Summit – truly the largest security event in Canada’s history – creates unprecedented challenges to the security of business information in the “zone.” Customer and employee records, legal and medical files, financial statements, internal memos and commercial secrets may be exposed to heightened security risks that are likely to be targeted by information criminals.
Michael Collins
Unfortunately, most companies have little or no experience adopting their complex information practices to the unpredictable environment within the “zone” or operating remotely from temporary locations outside of the “zone.”
Such times of uncertainty provide opportunities for fraudsters looking to exploit information security loopholes, yet companies’ obligations to protect their clients’ data cannot be compromised under any circumstances. Read the rest of this entry »
