CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

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1. Electronic Vaulting

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2. Full-Interruption Test
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Fortification of the facility in its construction materials - redundant servers and communications links - power lines coming in through different transformers - redundant vendor support - purchasing of insurance - purchasing of UPS and generators -
Responsible for starting the recovery of the original site. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and install equipment and applicat
The most intrusive test to regular operations and business productivity. the original site is shut down - and processing takes place at the alternate site. this test takes a lot of planning and coordination but it can reveal many holes in the plan. f


3. Restoration Team
Management support
Responsible for getting the alternate site into a working and functioning environment. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and ins
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous


4. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
A leased or rented facility that usually partially configured with some equipment (peripheral devices) - but not the actual computers... it's usually a hot site without the expensive equipment. This is the most widely-used model... it is less expensi
Typically a copy is stored at the BCP coordinator's home - and another copy is stored at the offsite facility... when they are stored offsite - they need to be stored in a way that provides just as much protection as the primary site would provide
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
It should be far enough away from the original site so one disaster does not take out both locations... alternate facilities should be at a bare minimum at least five miles away from the primary site - while 15 miles is recommended for most low-to-me


5. Disk Mirroring
There is more risk for the organization because replacement systems won't be available... that's why many organizations have moved to commercial off the shelf (COTS) products. they want to make sure replacement is possible
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
Makes copies of files as they are modified and periodically transmits them to an offsite backup site. The transmission doesn't happen in real time but is carried out in batches
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information


6. What is the main goal of business continuity?
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
Network and computer equipment - Voice and data communications resources - Human Resources - Transportation of equipment and personnel - Environment issues (HVAC) - Data and personnel security issues - Supplies (paper - forms - cabling - and so on) -
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications


7. Emergency Response Procedures
Prepared actions that are developed to help people in a crisis situation better cope with the disruption. Protection of life is of the utmost importance and should be dealt with first before looking to save material objects!
Network and computer equipment - Voice and data communications resources - Human Resources - Transportation of equipment and personnel - Environment issues (HVAC) - Data and personnel security issues - Supplies (paper - forms - cabling - and so on) -
Determines the cause of the disaster - Determines the potential for further damage - Identifies the affected business functions and areas - Identifies the level of functionality for the critical resources - Identifies the resources that must be repla
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected


8. Cyberinsurance
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
It requires less resources and time
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
The most intrusive test to regular operations and business productivity. the original site is shut down - and processing takes place at the alternate site. this test takes a lot of planning and coordination but it can reveal many holes in the plan. f


9. Synchronous Replication
Focuses on how to recover various IT mechanisms after a disaster. whereas a contingency plan is usually for nondisasters - a disaster recover plan is for disasters that require IT processing to take place at another facility
Typically a copy is stored at the BCP coordinator's home - and another copy is stored at the offsite facility... when they are stored offsite - they need to be stored in a way that provides just as much protection as the primary site would provide
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication


10. What are the three main types of leased or rented offsite facilities?
Define essential business functions and supporting departments - Identify interdependencies between these functions and departments - Discover all possible disruptions that could affect the mechanisms necessary to allow these departments to function
Representatives from at least each of the following departments must be involved with not only the planning stages but also the testing and implementation stages: - Business Units - Senior Management - IT Department - Security Department - Communicat
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site


11. Salvage Team
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
1. Develop the continuity planning policy statement 2. Conduct the business impact analysis (BIA) 3. Identify preventive controls 4. Develop recovery strategies 5. Develop the contingency plan 6. Test the plan and conduct training and exercises 7. Ma
Responsible for starting the recovery of the original site. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and install equipment and applicat
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes


12. What tasks should the BCP team carry out and have addressed in the resulting plan?
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
Consultants are experts in the field and know the necessary steps - questions to ask - and issues to look for - and they can also offer general reasonable advice. In-house employees know their company intimately and have a full understanding of how c
Define essential business functions and supporting departments - Identify interdependencies between these functions and departments - Discover all possible disruptions that could affect the mechanisms necessary to allow these departments to function
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations


13. Redundant Site
Loss in reputation and public confidence - Loss of competitive advantages - Increase in operational expenses - Violations of contract agreements - Violations of legal and regulatory requirements - Delayed income costs - Loss in revenue - Loss in pr
One site is equipped and configured exactly like the primary site - which serves as a redundant environment. these sites are owned by the company and are mirrors of the original production environment... this is one of the most expensive backup facil
All data are backed up and saved to some type of storage media. backup and restoration processes are very simplistic and straightforward with this method
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.


14. Tape Vaulting
Backing up business data to tapes that are then manually transferred to an offsite facility by a courier or an employee... with automatic tape vaulting - the data are sent over a serial line to a backup tape system at the offsite facility. Electronic
Makes copies of files as they are modified and periodically transmits them to an offsite backup site. The transmission doesn't happen in real time but is carried out in batches
The business continuity process isn't integrated into the change management process - infrastructure and environment changes occur - reorganization of the company - layoffs - or mergers occur - changes in hardware - software - and applications occur
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.


15. Rolling Hot Site (Mobile Hot Site)
A document that lays out the scope of the BCP project - the team member roles - and the goals of the project. it outlines what needs to be accomplished after the team communicates with management and comes to agreement on the terms of the project
The client pays a monthly fee to retain the right to use the facility in a time of need and then incurs a large activation fee when the facility actually has to be used... most recovery site contracts do not promise to house the company in need at a
A type of facility-backup option where the back of a large truck or a trailer is turned into a data processing or working area (typically used by military organizations and large insurance companies)
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team


16. Crisis Communications Plan
Responsible for starting the recovery of the original site. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and install equipment and applicat
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
Nondisaster: a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure - Disaster: an event that causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer - Catastrophe: a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether --> requires b
Includes internal and external communications structure and roles. identifies specific individuals who will communicate with external entities. contains predeveloped statements that are to be released


17. How do you determine how much coverage to obtain?
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
Base it off of the probability of the threat becoming real and the loss potential. the goal is to make sure the insurance coverage fills in the gap of what the current preventative countermeasures cannot protect against
If the company does not practice due care - the insurance company may not be legally obligated to pay if a disaster hits... this is why it's important to read and understand the fine print
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site


18. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Network and computer equipment - Voice and data communications resources - Human Resources - Transportation of equipment and personnel - Environment issues (HVAC) - Data and personnel security issues - Supplies (paper - forms - cabling - and so on) -


19. What is one of the best ways to work through the details of a BIA?
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
A leased or rented facility that supplies the basic environment - electrical wiring - air conditioning - plumbing and flooring - but none of the equipment or additional services. It may take weeks to get the site activated and ready for work. This is
A facility that is leased or rented and is fully configured and ready to operate within a few hours... the only missing resources are usually the data - which will be retrieved from a backup site - and the people who are processing the data. The equi
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components


20. What is the main reason to develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans?

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21. Disaster Recovery Plan
Focuses on how to recover various IT mechanisms after a disaster. whereas a contingency plan is usually for nondisasters - a disaster recover plan is for disasters that require IT processing to take place at another facility
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Annually
Present it to management for written approval


22. What information should a BCP and DR goal contain?
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
Responsibility: each individual involved should have their responsibilities spelled out in writing and the tasks should be assigned to the individual most situated to handle it - Authority: you need to know what leaders are going to step up to the pl
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications
Determines the cause of the disaster - Determines the potential for further damage - Identifies the affected business functions and areas - Identifies the level of functionality for the critical resources - Identifies the resources that must be repla


23. Executive Succession Planning
Focuses on how to recover various IT mechanisms after a disaster. whereas a contingency plan is usually for nondisasters - a disaster recover plan is for disasters that require IT processing to take place at another facility
The plans that determine the steps needed to protect the company in the event that a senior executive retires - leaves the company - or is killed. also details the people who would step in and assume responsibility
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available


24. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
Includes internal and external communications structure and roles. identifies specific individuals who will communicate with external entities. contains predeveloped statements that are to be released
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team


25. If a company loses computing capabilities for a week - what is the chance they will go out of business (on average)?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
A type of policy in which the insurance company will pay for specified expenses and lost earnings in the event that a company is forced out of business for a certain length of time. another policy can be bought that insures accounts receivable - so i
65%
Nondisaster: a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure - Disaster: an event that causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer - Catastrophe: a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether --> requires b


26. What are management's responsibilities with regards to BCP planning?
Annually
Committing fully to the BCP - Setting policy and goals - Making available the necessary funds and resources - Taking responsibility for the outcome of the development of the BCP - Appointing a team for the process
Since the software vendor provides its customers with only the compiled version of its applications - it's difficult for the customer to continue to use it if the vendor goes out of business. So the customer should set up a Software Escrow agreement
After it has been tested


27. What is one of the big issues with legacy equipment and disaster recovery?

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28. What are the benefits of using the Differential or Incremental backup methods?
Backing up business data to tapes that are then manually transferred to an offsite facility by a courier or an employee... with automatic tape vaulting - the data are sent over a serial line to a backup tape system at the offsite facility. Electronic
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
Includes internal and external communications structure and roles. identifies specific individuals who will communicate with external entities. contains predeveloped statements that are to be released
It requires less resources and time


29. Asynchronous Replication
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Determines the cause of the disaster - Determines the potential for further damage - Identifies the affected business functions and areas - Identifies the level of functionality for the critical resources - Identifies the resources that must be repla


30. What are loss criteria that can be applied to individual threats that were identified in the BIA?
Loss in reputation and public confidence - Loss of competitive advantages - Increase in operational expenses - Violations of contract agreements - Violations of legal and regulatory requirements - Delayed income costs - Loss in revenue - Loss in pr
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
A set of interrelated steps linked through specific decision activities to accomplish a specific task... business processes have starting and ending points and are repeatable
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan


31. Why does Insurance exist?

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32. What are some of the resources that would be required for individual business processes?
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
A type of policy in which the insurance company will pay for specified expenses and lost earnings in the event that a company is forced out of business for a certain length of time. another policy can be bought that insures accounts receivable - so i


33. At what point can a company have real confidence in a developed plan?
All data are backed up and saved to some type of storage media. backup and restoration processes are very simplistic and straightforward with this method
It has to figure out what the company needs to do to actually recover the items it has identified as being so important to the organization overall... the BIA provides the footprint
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
After it has been tested


34. What are some of the characteristics you should look at when creating a BIA?
The outage time that can be endured by a company
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
Makes copies of files as they are modified and periodically transmits them to an offsite backup site. The transmission doesn't happen in real time but is carried out in batches
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected


35. Incremental Backup
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
Typically a copy is stored at the BCP coordinator's home - and another copy is stored at the offsite facility... when they are stored offsite - they need to be stored in a way that provides just as much protection as the primary site would provide
1. Initiation Phase: goal statements - overview of concepts - roles and teams definitions - task definitions 2. Activation Phase: notification steps - damage assessment - plan activation 3. Recovery Phase: move to alternate site - restore processes -
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place


36. What are the three types of disruptions that a facility can have and what does each mean?
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Fortification of the facility in its construction materials - redundant servers and communications links - power lines coming in through different transformers - redundant vendor support - purchasing of insurance - purchasing of UPS and generators -
65%
Nondisaster: a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure - Disaster: an event that causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer - Catastrophe: a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether --> requires b


37. Business Process
When it detects danger to human life - When it detects danger to state or national security - When it detects damage to the facility - When it detects damage to critical systems
65%
Representatives from at least each of the following departments must be involved with not only the planning stages but also the testing and implementation stages: - Business Units - Senior Management - IT Department - Security Department - Communicat
A set of interrelated steps linked through specific decision activities to accomplish a specific task... business processes have starting and ending points and are repeatable


38. Cold Site
A leased or rented facility that supplies the basic environment - electrical wiring - air conditioning - plumbing and flooring - but none of the equipment or additional services. It may take weeks to get the site activated and ready for work. This is
Fortification of the facility in its construction materials - redundant servers and communications links - power lines coming in through different transformers - redundant vendor support - purchasing of insurance - purchasing of UPS and generators -
Nondisaster: a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure - Disaster: an event that causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer - Catastrophe: a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether --> requires b
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected


39. Who should be responsible for notifying the appropriate authorities and who would those authorities be?
Define essential business functions and supporting departments - Identify interdependencies between these functions and departments - Discover all possible disruptions that could affect the mechanisms necessary to allow these departments to function
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
One person should be responsible... the authorities are the police department - security guards - fire department - emergency rescue - and management
65%


40. How should a company - during the BIA phase - find out what the risks of its geographical location are? And how should they find out how to access emergency zones?
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
Contact the local authorities
The business continuity process isn't integrated into the change management process - infrastructure and environment changes occur - reorganization of the company - layoffs - or mergers occur - changes in hardware - software - and applications occur


41. Role of the Business Continuity Coordinator
A functional analysis in which a team collects data through interviews - workshops - and documentary sources; documents business functions - activities - and transactions (maybe in a set of flow charts); develops a hierarchy of business functions; an
Responsible for starting the recovery of the original site. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and install equipment and applicat
It has to figure out what the company needs to do to actually recover the items it has identified as being so important to the organization overall... the BIA provides the footprint
Lead the BCP team and oversee the development - implementation - and testing of the continuity and disaster recovery plans... this person needs to have direct access to management and have the credibility and authority to carry out leadership tasks


42. What issues does a company need to look at when determining when it should move into Reconstitution Phase?
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place
Base it off of the probability of the threat becoming real and the loss potential. the goal is to make sure the insurance coverage fills in the gap of what the current preventative countermeasures cannot protect against
It needs to ensure the safety of employees - It needs to ensure an adequate environment is provided (power - facility infrastructure - water - HVAC) - It needs to ensure that the necessary equipment and supplies are present and in working order - It


43. Hot Site
A functional analysis in which a team collects data through interviews - workshops - and documentary sources; documents business functions - activities - and transactions (maybe in a set of flow charts); develops a hierarchy of business functions; an
The business continuity process isn't integrated into the change management process - infrastructure and environment changes occur - reorganization of the company - layoffs - or mergers occur - changes in hardware - software - and applications occur
A facility that is leased or rented and is fully configured and ready to operate within a few hours... the only missing resources are usually the data - which will be retrieved from a backup site - and the people who are processing the data. The equi
Includes getting critical systems to another environment while repair of the original facilities is under way - getting the right people to the right places - and performing business in a different mode until regular conditions are back in place


44. What is the most critical part of establishing and maintaining a current continuity plan?
Management support
Done to ensure that the specific systems can actually perform adequately at the alternate offsite facility. some systems are moved to the alternate site and processing takes place. the results are compared with the regular processing that is done at
All employees who participate in operational and support functions - or their representatives - come together to practice executing the disaster recovery plan based on a specific scenario. the scenario is used to test the reaction of each operational
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money


45. How are offsite backup facility contracts usually established?
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
The client pays a monthly fee to retain the right to use the facility in a time of need and then incurs a large activation fee when the facility actually has to be used... most recovery site contracts do not promise to house the company in need at a
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value


46. Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
65%
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks


47. How do we know which data have changed and need to be backed up without having to look at every file's modification date?
Focuses on how to recover various IT mechanisms after a disaster. whereas a contingency plan is usually for nondisasters - a disaster recover plan is for disasters that require IT processing to take place at another facility
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
Nondisaster: a disruption in service due to a device malfunction or failure - Disaster: an event that causes the entire facility to be unusable for a day or longer - Catastrophe: a major disruption that destroys the facility altogether --> requires b
1. Select individuals to interview for data gathering 2. Create data-gathering techniques (surveys - questionnaires - qualitative and quantitative approaches) 3. Identify the company's critical business functions 4. Identify the resources these funct


48. What are the three main types of threats?
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Manmade: arsonist - terrorist - a simple mistake - Natural: tornadoes - floods - hurricanes - or earthquakes - Technical: data corruption - loss of power - device failure - or loss of a data communications line
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site


49. What are some appropriate and cost-effective preventative methods to better fortify a company from the impacts recognized in the BIA?
Responsible for starting the recovery of the original site. Needs to know how to install OSes - configure workstations and servers - string wiring and cabling - set up the network and configure networking services - and install equipment and applicat
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response
One site is equipped and configured exactly like the primary site - which serves as a redundant environment. these sites are owned by the company and are mirrors of the original production environment... this is one of the most expensive backup facil
Fortification of the facility in its construction materials - redundant servers and communications links - power lines coming in through different transformers - redundant vendor support - purchasing of insurance - purchasing of UPS and generators -


50. Where should the business continuity and disaster recovery plans be stored when they're completed?

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