Domain 2 Reading

Business Continuity Planning

• Business Continuity: Keep a business running in the face of adversity

• Scoping Questions

  • Which business activities are covered

  • What systems are covered

  • What controls are considered

    • Make things redundance and fault-tolerant

• Business Impact Analysis: Impact assessment that starts by identifying mission essential functions and traces them backwards to identify the IT systems that support the processes

• Disaster Recovery: Subset of business continuity activity designed to restore a business to normal opoerations as quickly as possible

  • Recovery Time Objective: Targeted amount of time that it will take to restore a service to operation following a disruption

  • Recovery Point Objective: Maximum time period from which data may be lost as a result of disaster

  • Recovery service level: Percentage of service that must be available during a disaster

  • Disaster recovery only stips when an organiation is back to normal operations

• Backups: Failsafe way to recover data in the event of a technology failure, error, or disaster