Planning for business continuity and DR
To finish this chapter, we are going to cover BCP and DR and the importance they play as they relate to security. When we look at BCP and DR, it is important to understand that these are separate functions that serve different purposes. BCP is a business-specific function that focuses on the business as a whole to ensure the continued operation of the business. The DR function is technical in nature and focuses on the recovery of IT infrastructure and systems. The DR plan falls within the larger BCP plan for the entire organization.
BCP is not a simple plan to build and put in place as it requires a lot of time and resources to build the plan. In addition to building a well-documented plan, it is just as important to ensure that everyone is familiar with the plan and that it has been coordinated and tested in some way. When it comes to executing the BCP plan in a real-world scenario, you don't want to be doing so for the first time without...
