Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
If you still think that having a business continuity and disaster recovery plan isn’t a high priority, it means that you have not been paying attention to the recent events. As we are emerging from a series of waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations and businesses are shifting towards a new normal that will be more digital, remote, and more cloud-based. Disaster recovery plans have to evolve to keep up with these changing business conditions.
Apart from all these, business requirements for disaster recovery professionals are changing dramatically and drastically. It was very easy to accept the recovery time to be measured in hours or days. Now its minutes. In some of the cases, business units demand zero downtime for the unplanned outage of an event.
Here are the basics of disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) plan for 2022 and beyond. In simple words, we say that Disaster recovery is forgetting and running IT infrastructure backup while business continuity is a broader discipline to get the backup of business and starts to function when power is back on.
Intrusion detection/response, Integrate cybersecurity, disaster recovery into a comprehensive data protection plan
The very first goal of CISCOs for disaster recovery plans is to avoid disasters, which has become increasingly challenging. In the data canter premises, data was no longer safely tucked away. Data was distributed on environments of on-premises, the edge, SaaS applications, and hyper-scale clouds. SaaS offers a serious recovery challenge and data protection because now there is a mission-critical application that runs as a service that is not in your control.
Secondly, the pandemic pushed millions of employees outside the secure confines of the corporate office to their home offices, where Wi-Fi is not much secure and where employees can share sensitive data on collaboration applications.
Third, hackers took note of these expanded attack vectors and have launched a barrage of new and more targeted attacks. According to the report of Sophos State of Ransomware 2020, hackers have now moved to server-based attacks from spray-and-pray desktop attacks.
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
“These are highly sophisticated and targeted attacks that require more effort to deploy. However, they are generally far more lethal due to the high value of encrypted assets and can cripple organizations with ransom requests of several million dollars. Can,” as per the report.
Certified network defender certification is in high demand due to increasing concern for the safety and security of networks by defenders.
In response to these changing circumstances, CISOs should focus on strengthening endpoint security for remote workers, deploying VPNs and encryption, keeping data secure at rest, no matter where it resides and ensuring that collaboration tools don’t become a source of security vulnerabilities.
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