Chapter 15: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Concepts
In order for an organization to conduct business operations in challenging and diverse environments, high-level planning and mitigation controls should be undertaken to ensure the enterprise is resilient. When the business delivers high-value services, plans must be developed for business continuity. In the event that a significant disruption may impact delivered services, plans should be created to allow the business to remain functional. Plans should be developed to ensure business operations can be resumed quickly and efficiently in the event of a disaster. High availability, redundancy, and fault tolerance are important considerations to ensure that services are available. Alternative sites may need to be identified, to allow for business continuity. Automation should be used where there is an opportunity to become more resilient, while bootstrapping can be used for the rapid deployment of workloads, using scripting...