Availability
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Availability refers to an IT infrastructure's recoverability and level of protection against system failures, natural disasters or malicious attacks.
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Sept 2024
How are U.S. CISOs Addressing Liability Risk?
New regulations taking effect in the U.S. mean that cybersecurity leaders could face legal liability in the event of an incident. What strategies are they using to protect themselves?
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Who are the best engineers to use to staff for a platform re-architecture program? Does the staffing strategy benefit from tweaks as you move from early to later stages of maturity?
The particular program is looking to reduce duplication that exists across business lines and likely will leverage a combination of adapter patterns, data-driven configuration and lot of generalization of duplicate capability.
We're open to FTE, contract, vendors, etc., and have good systems to use all already established.
What challenges have you faced in migrating to a cloud-native solution? How are you maintaining resiliency and high availability of the system?
If anyone has successfully used Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) in the cloud: Which Hardware Security Module (HSM) or key management method did you use, and with which cloud service provider(s) (CSP)? Any advice to an organization considering this option?
I'm interested in learning how other large enterprises are planning and approaching data backup, recovery, data loss, ransomware protection for Data Cloud Platforms such as Snowflake. * Are you using native capabilities? * Have you deployed additional 3rd party platforms? If so, which ones? Thanks in advance for your inputs and insights.
What strategies do you recommend for achieving high availability and disaster recovery in the cloud? (And conversely, anything you commonly hear that isn’t as effective as you’d think)?
< 40 hrs12%
40 - 55 hrs68%
56 - 65 hrs20%
66 - 75 hrs7%
76 - 85 hrs1%
> 85 hrs
Was your organization impacted by local host disruptions due to the Oct. 2025 Windows 11 update?
Yes70%
No30%
Which architectural paradigm, is your organization currently embracing — or most aspires to adopt — as part of its strategic cybersecurity evolution (whether already implemented, on the roadmap, or aspirational if time and resources allowed)? Please select the one that best reflects your organization’s current or aspirational direction.
SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) – Unifying network and security controls at the edge for a cloud-first enterprise43%
DCSA (Data-Centric Security Architecture) – Prioritizing protection that travels with the data wherever it resides or moves 29%
ZTA (Zero Trust Architecture) – Operationalizing “never trust, always verify” across users, devices, and workloads29%
CSMA (Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture) – Federating security services through an integrated, composable design