Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Business Continuity

 Business continuity can be defined as the ability of an organization to maintain its operations and services in the face of a disruptive event.

Environmental controls are steps to avoid disruptions rather than trying to recover from them.

Fire suppression, the act of suppressing a fire with different materials, chemicals, and/or systems.

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding, shielding which protects from the sudden flow of electric current between two objects, which can destroy electronic equipment.

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), are systems that provide and regulate heating and cooling.

Components of Redundancy Training

Servers, a system that connects computers on a network, so that information can be shared between all systems.

Storage, internal and external disks and drives where information is stored and retrieved.

Networks, a redundant network ensures that network services are always accessible.

Sites,  simply defined as a location; can be physical and electronic.

Data Backups, is copying information to a different medium and storing it (preferably at an off-site location) so that it can be used in the event of a disaster.

Disaster Recovery Procedures

Recovery strategies should be developed for Information technology (IT) systems, applications and data. This includes networks, servers, desktops, laptops, wireless devices, data and connectivity. Priorities for IT recovery should be consistent with the priorities for recovery of business functions and processes that were developed during the business impact analysis. IT resources required to support time-sensitive business functions and processes should also be identified. The recovery time for an IT resource should match the recovery time objective for the business function or process that depends on the IT resource.

Incident Response Procedures, the components required to identify, analyze, and contain that incident. Incident handling is the planning, coordination, communications, and planning functions that are needed in order to resolve an incident in an efficient manner.







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