Summary

In this chapter, we have understood why an organization needs to conduct high-level planning to ensure appropriate mitigation controls are deployed. We have learned about why plans are developed for business continuity. We have understood what is needed in a DRP. We have looked at high availability, redundancy, and fault tolerance, when critical services need to be available. We have looked at the business need for alternate sites, as well as physical locations and the services delivered by CSPs. We have learned why automation should be used in an effort to become more resilient. Knowledge has been acquired about bootstrapping, which can be used for the rapid deployment of workloads using scripting for custom configuration. We have looked at cloud-based autoscaling, allowing an enterprise to deploy workloads on demand to satisfy customer demands. We have looked at CDNs for low latency and the increased availability of services. We have looked at the need for the thorough testing...