Robin Bond

Robin Bond

Passionate. Precise. Writer.


News. Content. Broadcast TV.

Utility Dive •

This is not a dress rehearsal: What critical infrastructure owners and operators can do right now to defend against nation-state threats

Grid modernization has created a complex ecosystem of network-connected equipment, exposing utilities to a wide range of potential threats from nation-states, criminals, disgruntled employees, and accidental misconfiguration. The energy sector is particularly vulnerable to cyberattack because core cybersecurity strategies—like the use of SPAN ports to direct bulk network data to security analysis systems and physical air gaps to separate the Operational Technologies (OT) network from the rest o
SecureLink •

Top 3 Threats Posed by Third-Party Vendors

It’s pretty common knowledge that many companies outsource some, if not all, of their critical IT to vendors. While outsourcing to vendors or third parties does increase efficiency, it also opens companies up to a world of risk that isn’t always accounted for. To combat these unaccounted for risks, we want to educate people and raise awareness. Below we have listed the top three threats posed by third-party vendors to help you mitigate and prevent these risks. Even organizations with the most r

Planning Ahead: Incident Readiness vs. Business Continuity

Is your organization prepared? Cyberattacks on small and medium businesses (SMBs) are becoming more impactful and frequent thanks to bad actors around the globe, and that’s not all. Business interrupting data incidents are rising via insider attacks, corporate espionage, volatile weather events, and more. From costly downtime to business shutdown, SMBs pay the price for unchecked incidents in the form of dollars, lost market share, damaged reputation, or worse, complete loss of business. From m
Flexential •

Every Season is Hurricane Season When it Comes to Protecting Your Data: The Top 3 Causes of Data Loss in Business

Hurricane season in the U.S. reminds organizations of all shapes and sizes to review – and test – their IT disaster recovery (DR) plans, from securing temporary office space on higher ground to protecting their most precious commodity, their data. The bad news? The greatest threats to your company’s business continuity – including your data – aren’t isolated to July through November. Critical infrastructure can go down any time of year, for reasons ranging from power outages and network failure
Paramount WorkPlace •

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across trade, education, government, healthcare, and more. And within almost every industry, the procurement department was left to solve unsolvable problems. Long-standing systems for balancing supply and demand fell apart, most visibly in the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) that frontline healthcare workers needed to protect themselves and others during the crisis. In non-healthcare fields, ma
JumpCloud •

Why Aren't More SMEs Using Multi-Factor Authentication?

Cyberattacks against companies large and small are on the rise as hackers engineer new ways to access and steal data. From ransomware to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), two facts are particularly concerning: • Leveraged credentials, most often passwords, cause sixty-one percent of data breaches. • Nearly half of all cyber-attacks target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are less equipped to recover from damages. Because SMEs inherently lack the cybersecurity resources of large
Flexential •

Dodging Data Disaster in 3 Steps: A Cautionary Tale

When transportation company A&R Logistics began experiencing unexplainable, catastrophic power problems in its Chicago-area data center, the stakes were high. With a nationwide fleet of 800 trucks, 1,200 trailers, 23 terminals and ten warehousing facilities, A&R, a leading provider of dry bulk transportation, has 750 drivers on the road at any given time, from coast to coast. If drivers don’t know which products to deliver, and where and when to deliver them, global petrochemical companies (A&R’
Flexential •

Healthcare IT Services Solutions brochure

Healthcare IT teams are expected to match the same benchmarks for speed, quality and innovation as other industries, while also facing higher scrutiny and higher costs for data loss. They must navigate confusing and evolving requirements set forth by standards such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Trust Alliance. It isn’t just new regulations and mandates that keep health IT departments up at night. Healthcare records are now some of the most
Flexential •

Hitachi Vantara Case Study

A subsidiary of $90 billion Hitachi Ltd, Hitachi Vantara combines information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) to helps businesses in industrial sectors like automotive, power and medical equipment fully leverage their data for success. When Hitachi Vantara needed to improve redundancy and resiliency standards in their aging Plainfield, Ind. data center, they weighed building a new data center against moving into an existing data center. They were in the process of moving Hitachi

Surviving the Semiconductor Chip Shortage: A New Reason to Move to the Cloud

A new reason to move to the Cloud In case you haven’t heard, there’s a semiconductor chip shortage. Its impact is being felt deep and wide by just about every industry globally. An essential component of manufacturing for, well, everything is the computer chip. From the automobile industry, where the semiconductor shortage is driving up the demand for used cars, to the mobile and wireless sectors, which have scarcely recovered since the COVID-19 drove up demand for home technology, the worldwid
Load More Articles