Disaster recovery and continuity of operations concepts
It is important that if a company suffers from a disaster that they can be up and running as soon as possible. Disasters range from natural disasters such as hurricanes or floods, hardware failure, malicious insider attack, or accidental deletion of data. The main aim of a disaster recovery plan is to get the company back up and running so that it can generate income. Let's look at the different aspects of disaster recovery:
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA): BIA looks at the monetary loss if a company is not up and running, coupled with the purchase of new equipment so that the business can continue to operate.
- Recovery sites: There are three main types of recovery sites and these are hot, cold, and warm sites. Let's look at each of them:
- Hot site: This site is up and running with staff loading the data into live systems on an hourly basis. This makes it the most expensive to maintain, but it has the fastest recovery. We may also use a...
