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| disaster recovery plan (DRP) |
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Definition
carried out when everything is still in emergencymode, and everyone is scrambling to get all critical systems back online. to minimize the effects of a disaster or disruption. It
means taking the necessary steps to ensure that the resources, personnel, and business
processes are able to resume operation in a timely manner. |
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| business continuity plan (BCP) |
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Definition
provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term
outages and disasters. |
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Term
business continuity
management (BCM) |
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Definition
the holistic management process that should cover both of
them. BCM provides a framework for integrating resilience with the capability for effective
responses that protects the interests of an organization’s key stakeholders. The
main objective of BCM is to allow the organization to continue to perform business
operations under various conditions. |
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Term
| business continuity coordinator |
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Definition
This person will be the leader for the BCP team and will oversee the development,
implementation, and testing of the continuity and disaster recovery plans |
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The team must comprise people who are familiar with the different
departments within the company, because each department is unique in its functionality
and has distinctive risks and threats. |
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Term
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Definition
supplies the framework for and governance of designing and building
the BCP effort. The policy helps the organization understand the importance of
BCP by outlining BCP’s purpose. It provides an overview of the principles of the organization
and those behind BCP, and the context for how the BCP team will proceed |
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| Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats |
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Term
| BIA (business impact analysis) |
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Definition
considered a functional analysis, in which a team
collects data through interviews and documentary sources; documents business functions,
activities, and transactions; develops a hierarchy of business functions; and finally
applies a classification scheme to indicate each individual function’s criticality
level. |
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Term
| risk assessment equation: |
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Definition
| Risk = Threat × Impact × Probability x Time |
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Term
| maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) |
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Definition
| The outage time that can be endured by a company |
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Term
| Recovery Time Objective (RTO) |
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Definition
| the earliest time period and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster to avoid unacceptableconsequences associated with a break in business continuity |
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Definition
the remainder of the overall MTD value after Recovery Time Objective (RTO). deals with restoring data, testing processes, and then making everything “live” for
production purposes. |
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Term
| Recovery Point Objective (RPO) |
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Definition
| the acceptable amount of data loss measured in time. This value represents the earliest point in time at which data must be recovered. The higher the value of data, the more funds or other resources that can be put into place to ensure a smaller amount of data is lost in the event of a disaster. |
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Term
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Definition
the team approaches the information gathered during
the BIA stage from a practical perspective. It has to figure out what the company needs
to do to actually recover the items it has identified as being so important to the organization
overall. |
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Definition
| a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure |
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Term
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Definition
an event that
causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer. |
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Term
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Definition
a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether. This
requires both a short-term solution, which would be an offsite facility, and a long-term
solution, which may require rebuilding the original facility. |
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Term
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Definition
A facility that is leased or rented and is fully configured and ready
to operate within a few hours |
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Term
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Definition
A leased or rented facility that is usually partially configured with
some equipment, such as HVAC, and foundational infrastructure components,
but not the actual computers |
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Term
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Definition
A leased or rented facility that supplies the basic environment,
electrical wiring, air conditioning, plumbing, and flooring, but none of the
equipment or additional services. A cold site is essentially an empty data
center. It may take weeks to get the site activated and ready for work |
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Definition
company A agrees to allow company B to use its
facilities if company B is hit by a disaster, and vice versa |
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Definition
| more than two organizations agree to help one other in case of an emergency. |
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Definition
| the back of a large truck or a trailer is turned into a data processing or working area |
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Term
| executive succession planning |
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Definition
if someone in a senior executive position retires, leaves the company, or is
killed, the organization has predetermined steps to carry out to protect the company |
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Term
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Definition
method of transmitting data offsite,
but this usually only includes moving the journal or transaction logs to the offsite facility,
not the actual files |
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Term
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Definition
the data are
sent over a serial line to a backup tape system at the offsite facility |
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Term
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Definition
the primary and secondary
data volumes are out of sync. Synchronization may take place in seconds, hours, or
days, depending upon the technology in place. |
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Term
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Definition
the primary
and secondary repositories are always in sync, which provides true real-time duplication |
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Term
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Definition
a combination of technologies and processes that work together
to ensure that some specific thing is always up and running |
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Definition
configured so if one link goes down or gets congested,
then traffic is routed over a different network link. Redundant hardware can also be
available so if a primary device goes down, the backup component can be swapped out
and activated. |
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Definition
the capability of a technology to continue to operate as expected
even if something unexpected takes place (a fault |
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Definition
if there is a failure that cannot
be handled through normal means, then processing is “switched over” to a working
system. |
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Term
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Definition
Some systems are moved to the alternate site and
processing takes place. The results are compared with the regular processing that is
done at the original site. This points out any necessary tweaking or reconfiguring |
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