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| Organization’s ability to maintain operations after a disruptive event |
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| Examples of disruptive events |
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Power outage
Hurricane
Tsunami |
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| Business continuity planning and testing |
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Identify exposure to threats
Create preventative and recovery procedures
Test procedures to determine if they are sufficient |
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| Determining in advance who is authorized to take over if key employees die or are incapacitated |
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(BIA)
Business impact analysis |
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Analyzes most important business functions and quantifies impact of their loss
Identifies threats through risk assessment
Determines impact if threats are realized |
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| form helps organize information obtained from the interview |
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Subset of business continuity planning and testing
Also known as contingency planning
Focuses on protecting and restoring information technology functions |
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(MTTR)
Mean time to restore |
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| Measures average time needed to reestablish services |
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| Disaster recovery activities |
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| Create, implement, and test disaster recovery plans |
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Written document detailing process for restoring IT resources:
Following a disruptive event |
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| Component or entity which will disable the entire system if it no longer functions |
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| Asymmetric servers perform no function except to be ready if needed |
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| Used for databases, messaging systems, file and print services |
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| All servers do useful work in a symmetric server cluster |
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If one server fails, remaining servers take on failed server’s work
More cost effective than asymmetric clusters
Used for Web, media, and VPN servers |
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(MTBF)
Mean time between failures |
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Measures average time until a component fails and must be replaced
Can be used to determine number of spare hard drives an organization should keep |
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(UPS)
Uninterruptible power supply |
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| Maintains power to equipment in the event of an interruption in primary electrical power source |
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All equipment is installed
No active Internet or telecommunications facilities |
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No current data backups
Less expensive than a hot site
Time to turn on connections and install backups can be half a day or more |
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| A service contract between a vendor and a client that specifies what services will be provided, the responsibilities of each party, and any guarantees of service. |
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| Attackers could pick up electromagnetic fields and read data |
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| Controlling environmental factors can reduce |
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| Applying science to legal questions |
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