Disaster Recovery

Question 1

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

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enables companies to resume normal operations after a disaster.

Question 2

In an IT context, this disaster generally involves a cybersecurity breach:

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the loss, theft, or disappearance of sensitive data; a virus, a cyberattack, or cybercrime.

Question 3

Disaster recovey

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is broadly defined as an organisation’s ability to respond to and recover from catastrophic event.

Question 4

In the wake of a cyber attack

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teams need to have a disaster recovery plan in place to address problems as promptly and effectively as possible.

Question 5

Cybersecurity is an increasingly common area where…

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disaster recovery is critical to handling threats.

Question 6

Disaster Recovery Plan is:

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an organisation’s strategic documentation and process to restore access to compromised systems and infrastructure after a cyber attack, human error, natural disaster, or other catastrophic events.

Question 7

Disaster recovery works two-fold to both…

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maintain and reestablish critical IT systems and infrastructure following an incident.

Question 8

Maintenance works

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by properly replicating and backing up data and assets to specific restore points.

Question 9

Recovery

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is a reactionary effort to regain functionality and control over systems and data that become infected or breached.

Question 10

What makes a disaster recovery plan effective is

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anticipating threats before they arise and testing different threat scenarios to ensure the plan works.

Question 11

An effective disaster recovery plan addresses an organisation’s unique

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assets, infrastructure and vulnerabilities.

Question 12

Several fundamentals elements should be considered as part of any disaster recovery plan:

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• risk assessment: teams should thoroughly evaluate all possible threats and weaknesses in the organisation’s IT infrastructure and target areas of interes susceptible to cyber attacks.
• business continuity
• data archiving, backups, and recovery
• incident response
• communication
• training and education
• testing and drills

Question 13

Steps to create a Disaster Recovery Plan

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1. Assemble your team: determine the roles and responsabilities across all members of your team as well as various departments.
2. Develop an incident management plan: this should be a comprehensive documentation of the procedures used to pinpoint and report threats and cyber attacks, including incident response, investigation, and recovery procedures.
3. Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA): The type of analysis, which helps inform the priorities and objectives of disaster recovery….
4. Establish a recovery point objective (RPO): This metric defines the maximun acceptable amount of data loss measured in time.
5. Determine a Recovery time objective (RTO)
6. Define and document your plan
7. Consistently test the disaster recovery plan
8. Regularly review and update the plan