A Computer Glitch? What is the cause and effect to a business?

A Computer Glitch is an unplanned outage that later shows up as some sort of security breach or hack, a techincal failure or a human error. Disruptions to the normal business flow impact the organizations reputation. The longer the outage the higher the business exposure and loss of revenue.

How to achieve “Business As Usual”? Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) would protect the last line of defense of your computer systems and implementation of a remote failover server geographically dispersed would protect the the business from unplanned outages that effect the site, the immediate area or a region.

Need a ZeroIMPACT solution? Mission-Critical business's implement ZeroIMPACT solutions for Security and Data Protection to eliminate the business risk of unplanned and planned outages to achieve maximum availability.

Examples of recent 2011 computer glitches causing a disruption or an unexpected shutdown:

• The last line of your computers security defense was justed hacked.What do you do? RSA a division of  EMC was hacked on Thursday suffering a sophisticated hacker attack that resulted in the theft of sensitive information related to its popular SecurID two-factor authentication products. Seed codes were compromised - the worst possible breach and exposure - RSA has over 40 Million SecureID tokens deployed. The exposure can go beyond RSA and effect thousands of customers if the intelligence gathered can be used to breach other companies last line of defense.
• A system-wide computer problem at US Airways grounded an undetermined number of flights on Friday:
US Airways averages 3,000 flights per day. "US Airways is experiencing a computer system outage that has impacted usairways.com and the airline's airport computer system," the carrier said in a statement." Early reports indicate that the system's outage is the result of a power outage near one of the airline's data centers in Phoenix, AZ.