Cyber Resilience

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Cyber Resilience

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Entity’s ability to deliver the intended outcome despite cyber events

Question 2

High Availability

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The ability of a service to be continuously available by minimizing downtime to the lowest amount

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Load Balancing

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Distributing workloads across multiple computer resources

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Clustering in Networks

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Use of multiple computer storage networks as one system to give availability, reliability, and scalability

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Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID)

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Combines multiple physical storage devices into a recognized single device

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RAID 0

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Stripping

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RAID 1

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Mirroring

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RAID 5

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Stripping with parity

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RAID 6

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Stripping with two blocks of parity

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RAID 10

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Strip the array of mirrored arrays, mirrors the data in a pair and strips it to make sure that if one goes down, it’s okay

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Stripping

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Splitting data between sources so when combined makes the full data block

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Parity

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Store just enough information that if its loss it can be mathematically reconstructed

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Failure Resistant

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Use of redundant storage to withstand hardware malfunction without data loss; RAID 10

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Fault Tolerant

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Uses RAID 1,5,6,10 for uninterrupted operation during hardware failures

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Disaster Tolerant

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Protects data from catastrophic events

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Capacity Planning

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Strategic planning to meet future demands cost-effectively

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Surge

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Small and unexpected increase in the amount of voltage being provided

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Spike

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Short transient voltage that is usually caused by a short circuit, a trip circuit breaker, power outage, or a lightning strike

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Sag

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Small and unexpected decrease in the amount of voltage being provided

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Undervoltage Event

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When the voltage is reduced to lower levels and usually occur for a longer period of time

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Power Loss Event

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No power

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Line Conditioners

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Used to overcome any minor fluctuations in the power being received by the given system

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Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)

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Device that provides emergency power to a system when a normal fails; A generator for example

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Power Distribution Center (PDC)

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Where power is received from a power supply, and distributed to all systems

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Data backup

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Duplicate copies of digital information to prevent data loss; Backups can be on-site or off-site

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Snapshots

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Point in time copies of the data that capture a consistent state

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Replication

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Making real time or near real time copies of the data

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Jornaling

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Maintaining exchange record for every change to the data over time

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Community of Operations Plan

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Ensures that the organization's ability to recover from disruptive events or disasters

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Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

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Incident

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Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

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Disasters

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Redundant Site Consideration

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Alternate sites for backup in case the primary location encounters a failure or interruption

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Redundant Site Consideration Scaling

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Cold to warm to hot Sites

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Mobile Site

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A versatile site that uses independent and portable units

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Virtual Site

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Cloud-based environments and offers highly flexible approaches

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Platform Diversity

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Using different platforms to prevent a single point of failure

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Resilience Testing

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The ability to handle multiple scenarios

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Recovery Testing

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The efficiency to recover from multiple failure points

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Failover Test

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Seamless system transition to a backup

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Tabletop Exercise

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Simulated discussion to improve crisis readiness without displaying resources