Disaster recovery best practices
In the event of a disaster, there are best practices to adhere to on-premises, on the Cloud, and within hybrid systems. We'll deal with them in sequence:
On-Premises
After the occurrence of a disaster, on-premises DR can help salvage the organization from total system failure and data loss in a cost-effective way. The best practices include:
- Acting fast: without off-site backups or hot sites where operations can be shifted to, it could take an attacker a few minutes to bring down the whole organization. Therefore, DR teams should be on standby to respond to any events at all times. They should always have executable DR plans and a means of quickly accessing the organizational network and system.
- Replicated backups: one of the main concerns during disasters is the permanent loss of data. Organizations should adopt a strategy where they keep replicated backups on the computers or servers as well as external disks. These backups...
