Computer Security

Computer Security

ITM527 - IT Security and Disaster Recovery Mgmt.

Module 1 – SLP

Louis J. Klampfer

Overview of Information Assurance

      Introduction

      Business continuity is essential to running a business. It is important that the only way to ensure business continuity is to prevent cyber disasters, and other internal/external threats that threaten a business and the corporate world. It is important for companies and businesses, to protect cyber and material assets but enforcing and re-enforcing counter measures and protections for their cyber networks. What was discovered was that business continuity and disaster recovery can work together.

Recognizing Business Continuity and protection strategies.

      It is important to understand that disasters are not except in the cyber world. No one would have believed or perceived that in twenty years in the past, one of the first responders to an emergency would be the IT department, or maybe a system administrator. However, dependence on technology in the business world has made the IT department one of the most valuable and vital parts of the business. Cyber disasters that shut down mission critical applications for extended lengths of time could have devastating direct and indirect costs for any company or government business functions. Business continuity and maybe a recovery plan are worth little without a stable disaster recovery system plan ready to recover the systems that would otherwise be lost. The most secure of disaster recovery plans include backups of not only data but also operating systems data, utility files, and software licensing. The role of the IT department is to enforce continuous operation of a business by providing the ability to successfully recover lost data and prevent cyber breech with compromising data or sensitive homeland security data. Business continuity strategies consist of responding to and recovering from natural disasters such as tornadoes and terrorist strikes such as...