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IT services obviously have to meet security requirements: sensitive data needs to be kept confidential, systems and data must not be tampered with and everything should be kept available. This sounds straightforward in principle, but the reality is more complex. The continuation of business strongly depends on good security. Criminals and fraudsters are focusing on…

In light of recent hackings of the biggest bitcoin exchanges, there has been a great issue regarding cybersecurity. In order to gain more insight into the subject we will now take a specific scope and focus on the security of bitcoins or as one may call it, Blockchain 1.0. Bitcoin, the peer to peer electronic…

What exactly is your role in the Zero Outage Industry Standard Association? I am currently leading the security workstream, which is one of the four elements of the Zero Outage Industry Standard Association. All workstreams focus on different areas and topics but are holistically integrated with each other. I lead a small team, consisting of…

In today’s world, both individuals and businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on IT services, and less prone to tolerate interruptions of any form of the services that IT platforms deliver to them. We are not talking anymore about well known businesses and industries who rely on mission critical IT services like transportation or banking. Who…

We are welcoming our new members IBM and Swisscom who have recently joined our association. Within the next weeks all partners will continue to work together to specify new guidelines for the industry standard which will be updated on our website zero-outage.com. Our overall aim is to provide a common framework for IT-Quality with a…

Security Workstream Meeting in Milan Development of supplier network management model From 12th – 13th of January 2017 representatives of Cisco, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper and T-Systems met in Milan to discuss the development of a supplier network management model. In our digitalised economy, businesses are strongly depend on…