A common question topic posed to me, the VP of Compliance, from both non-IT and IT professionals alike revolve around the concept of RPO and RTO with regards to Business Continuity Management.  Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are two of the most important parameters of a sound disaster recovery plan.

This month, I explain everything you need to know about RPO and RTO! 

Recently, our CEO Michael Petrov has been featured in an exhibit "Immigrants Mean Business". This exhibit features immigrants that came to America and built up their own small business. All the photos were taken by Tesfa Alexander in this exhibit that is open on weekends until September 8th 2019! We have uploaded the photo's Tesfa took for Digital Edge!

Happy Birthday GDPR! On May 25^th, internationally we will be “celebrating” the first anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Nearly one year later, have the stricter rules really made a difference? Consumers are definitely seeing more pop-up privacy notices online, thanks to GDPR, but for now the astronomical fines the new regulations threatened have not yet surfaced.

In our continuing efforts to help our clients automate system administration and enforce cybersecurity's best practices, Digital Edge’s skillful and experienced team worked hard to create a script that will scan your servers for the required patch ensuring the security of your servers. 

Vendor Management Requirements in CyberSecurity Standards

Are you in control of third-party risk? Do you have a sound vendor management department? Do you audit your suppliers?

In a short nine months, there has been hundreds of thousands of cases and millions in fines.

And this is just the start.

What Cyber Laws Apply to Me?

It is becoming ever so clear that compliance isn't an easy task handled by the IT department, but that it's a team effort from all the departments. This makes it more difficult in regards to what's applicable so our VP of Compliance has broken down all the laws into simpler terms to be able to distinguish which law you must abide! 

One method of ensuring greater cybersecurity protection in a world of hacks and breaches: to undertake regular and programed cybersecurity audits and assessments.

The thought of an audit may strike fear in many individuals at all levels in an organization. Mostly, audits are routine and serve to ensure there is at the minimum a check-and-balance to satisfy whichever regulatory body requires it. When there are non-conformities found, it shouldn't be looked upon as a negative thing. 

This month, our VP of Compliance speaks to the benefits of non-conformities.