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Domain 7: BCP/DRP pt 2 Flashcards

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  • Business Continuity Planning process
  • Formal method for determining how a disruption to IT systems will impact the organization’s requirements, process, and interdependencies with respect to the business mission
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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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Describes the total time a system can be inoperable before an organization is severely impacted

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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)

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What are some alternate terms for the Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)?

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Maximum Allowable Downtime
Maximum Tolerable Outage
Maximum Acceptable Outage

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  • Failure and recovery metric

- The amount of data loss or system inaccessibility that an organization can withstand

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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

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  • Failure and recovery metric

- Describes the maximum time allowed to recover an IT system

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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

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The time required to configure a recovered system

MTD = RTO + ____

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Work recovery time (WRT)

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  • Failure and recovery metric

- Describes the length of time a new or repaired system will run before failing

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Mean Time between Failures (MTBF)

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  • Failure and recovery metric

- Describes the length of time it will take specific failed system to recover

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Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

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  • Failure and recovery metric

- Describes the minimum environmental and connectivity requirements in order to operate computer equipment

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Minimum operating requirements (MOR)

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  • A location that is an exact production duplicate of main IT operation systems
  • No loss of availability during a disruption
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Redundant Site

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  • Location that contains all equipment and services required by the company
  • Organization may relocate to following a major disruption or disaster
  • Can be brought up within minutes or hours
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Hot Site

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Location with readily accessible hardware and connectivity, but relies on backup data in order to rebuild a system after a disruption

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Warm Site

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  • Location that does not contain backup copies of data or any immediately available hardware
  • Could take weeks to get up and running
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Cold site

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  • Bidirectional agreement between two organizations

- One company promises another that it can move in and share space if it experiences a disaster

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Reciprocal agreements aka Mutual Assistance Agreements (MAAs)

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Transportable data centers that can be towed, supplied with power and network to be brought online

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Mobile site

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  • Procedures for sustaining essential business operations while recovering from significant disruptions
  • Addresses business processes; IT addressed bases only on its support for business process
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Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

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  • Procedures for recovering business operations immediately following a disaster
  • Addresses business processes; not IT focus; IT addressed based only on its support for business process
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Business Recovery Plan (BRP)

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  • Procedures and capabilities to sustain an organization’s essential, strategic functions at an alternate site for up to 30 days
  • Addresses the subset of organization’s missions that are deemed most critical; usually written at headquarters level; not IT-focused
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Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)

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  • Procedures and capabilities for recovering a major application or general support system
  • Addresses IT system disruptions; not business process-related
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Continuity of Support Plan/IT Contingency Plan

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  • Procedures for publishing status reports to personnel and public
  • Not IT-focused
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Crisis Communications Plan

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Plan to detect, respond to and limit consequences of malicious cyber incidents

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Cyber Incident Response Plan

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  • Detailed procedure to facilitate recovery of capabilities at an alternate site
  • Often IT-focused; limited to major disruptions with long-term effects
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Disaster Recovery Plan

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  • Coordinated procedure for minimizing loss of life or injury and protecting property damage in response to physical threat
  • Focuses on personnel and property particularly of a specific facility
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Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP)

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What are the five steps of the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process?

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  1. Identification of priorities
  2. Risk identification
  3. Likelihood assessment
  4. Impact assessment
  5. Resource prioritization
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  • BCP Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process
  • Involves creating a comprehensive list of business processes and ranking them in order or importance
  • Metrics: asset value (AV), maximum tolerable downtime (MTD), recovery time objective (RTO)
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Identification of priorities

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  • BCP Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process

- Natural and man-made threats posed to your organization

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Risk identification

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  • BCP Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process

- Determines probability of a risk occurring

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Likelihood assessment

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  • BCP Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process
  • Determine the effect each of the identified risks would have on the business if it were to occur
  • Metrics: exposure factor (EF), single loss expectancy (SLE), annualized loss expectancy (ALE)
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Impact assessment

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  • BCP Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process

- Here we allocate resources to the various risks we’ve already identified and assessed

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Resource prioritization

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  • Company that owns large server farms and fields of workstations, it leases this computer time
  • Can support all IT needs in the event of a disaster even desktops
  • Tend to oversell their capacity by betting all their contracts will not be excised at the same time
  • Potential for resource contention in the event of a major disaster
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