Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies
Availability as a feature refers to IT services remaining available to the business in the event of an attack or disaster. It is an important part of computer security. To ensure availability, security teams are often involved in the planning and development of a disaster recovery strategy.
An important aspect to consider is whether potential data loss results from an attack or a natural event. In the case of a natural event such as flooding or power outages, resilience should be a key element of your availability strategy.
In the case of a cyber attack, you need to consider the intent of the intruder as an additional factor in the potential damage. Disaster recovery planning is especially becoming more important with the prevalence of ransomware attacks, where attackers encrypt the onsite data so that it becomes unusable to the business. They then ask for a ransom to supply the decryption key. Instead of paying this ransom, organizations...
