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How Secure is Secure Enough?...Published July 2012Written by Rashaad Bajwa for New Jersey Banker Summer 2012 The information security threat landscape changes on a daily basis. How can today’s community and regional banks be proactive in protecting their IT infrastructures and their customers’ sensitive financial information? Similar to evolution in nature, banks that don’t evolve fast enough face increasing risks. If they can’t keep up with the cha

To Cloud or Not to Cloud for Email?

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Authored by: Rashaad Bajwa

The Google Apps outage this last Wednesday, 4/17/2013 at the start of the business workday had a lot of people talking. The conversations parallel the same ones we've been having with many of our clients over the last couple of years. The following is our take on it:

The definition of what constitutes the cloud changes every day and has been muddled by marketing gurus that package it as if it were some ethereal heaven-like place. The reality is the cloud and cloud-based services are servers. The only difference is that they’re not at your place, they're at someone else’s. The assumption is that their servers and datacenters are much bigger, better and more fortified than yours…and most of the time that is likely true. However that’s not necessarily the case, your “cloud” could be a single computer running in my basement. Let’s hope that’s not the case, but decision makers do need to be aware that there are no regulations in the industry as to what constitutes appropriate safeguards when hosting other people’s email, servers, data, etc.

One would hope Google Apps, and Microsoft Office 365, and others have bigger, badder and more redundant servers and datacenters than you do, but remember they have to out of necessity. Their big servers and big datacenters host millions of customers and are attacked thousands of times a day. They need at least a thousand times more protection and scale than your private servers dedicated just for your business. The cloud can do a lot of great things, but it is not heaven.

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The Results

FGI Finance NY employees were securely able to access their critical systems running in their warm site via remote access even while Super Storm Sandy had put their 80 Broad St office out of commission. All their data and applications were accessible and ready to use. FGI was able to continue to conduct business and provide exceptional services to their customers. Smart decisions by leadership allowed FGI Finance to weather Super Storm Sandy. In the face of a disaster, credibility was not only maintained, but enhanced - with stakeholders, clients and employees.

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The Setback of Downtime and How You Can Prevent It

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Tweet Downtime Is More Than an Inconvenience During downtime you may think you’re just not making money, when on the contrary you are losing money. Money lost from payroll for employees who can’t be productive, money lost due to loss of clients from inability to connect with them and loss of money from having to pay an hourly service fee to get up and running again.
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Small Business Continuity Considerations after Hurricane Sandy

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Written by Caitlin O'Donnell

Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy, Winter Storm Nemo and many other natural disasters have been plaguing our world, it almost seems like something out of the apocalyptic movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. Unlike the characters in that movie YOU can be prepared for any natural disaster and protect your business with a business continuity plan.

Now you may be thinking, where do I start, who and what should I consider when implementing a continuity plan for my small business? Here we’re going to focus on the what so then you will know who will best suit your needs.