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I still remember participating in “failover tests” years ago (decades, actually — but let’s not dwell on that) for a financial institution, based on restoring data from tape. This was a company with over 300 physical servers, relying on time-consuming recovery from a sequential medium to bring back systems like Swift and large Oracle databases at a provider’s disaster recovery site.

Executives play a vital role in ensuring the continuity of their organizations. With new laws and regulations tightening personal liability, the pressure is increasing.

How it all started; On December 27, 2022, the European Union published the successor to the original NIS Directive: the NIS2 Directive.

It’s important to incorporate a customer-focused way of working, and a good way to get started is with a one-day workshop. Sounds good, but how do you organize and facilitate such a workshop?

GPT-5 was released a few days ago. The unveiling was a mild disaster featuring cardinal data visualization mistakes and underwhelming advancements in performance, especially considering a likely multi-billion-dollar price tag associated with the training effort.