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CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

Subjects : certifications, it-skills, cissp

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who should be involved in the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans? In what part of the process?
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
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
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

2. Differential Backup
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value
Contact the local authorities
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
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

3. What does the BCP team need to understand about critical business processes?
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes

4. Business Interruption Insurance
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
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
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

5. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications
The employees who carry out the most critical functions of the company who must be put back to work first
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production

6. Full-Interruption Test
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
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) -
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
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

7. What are some of the characteristics you should look at when creating a BIA?
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
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
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation

8. Role of the Business Continuity Coordinator
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
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
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
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

9. What tasks should the BCP team carry out and have addressed in the resulting plan?
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
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
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
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party

10. How frequently should a company's insurance be reviewed?
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
Annually
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery

11. What is one of the best ways to work through the details of a BIA?
The outage time that can be endured by a company
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
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
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application

12. What is the main goal of business continuity?
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
After it has been tested
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money

13. Warm Site

14. IT Contingency Plan
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
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
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value

15. How do you determine how much coverage to obtain?
A method of transmitting data offsite - but it usually only includes moving the journal or transaction logs to the offsite facility - not the actual files. these logs contain the changes that have taken place to the individual files. Journaling is ef
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
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

16. What is the general structure of a BCP?
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
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
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 -
Contact the local authorities

17. Disk Shadowing
Data are dynamically created and maintained as images on two or more identical disks. this method is used to ensure the availability of data and to provide a fault-tolerant solution by duplicating hardware and maintaining more than one copy of the in
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
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
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation

18. Structured Walk-Through Test
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
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
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
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

19. Parallel Test
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
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
Preventive mechanisms are put into place to try to reduce the possibility of the company experiencing a disaster and - if a disaster does hit - to lessen the amount of damage that will take place - Recovery strategies are processes on how to rescue t
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application

20. What functions should be moved back first during the Reconstitution Phase?
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
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 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

21. Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
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
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover

22. Should the BCP team be responsible for setting up and maintaining the company's data classification procedures?
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
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
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place
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

23. What is the difference between preventive mechanisms and recovery strategies?
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
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
Preventive mechanisms are put into place to try to reduce the possibility of the company experiencing a disaster and - if a disaster does hit - to lessen the amount of damage that will take place - Recovery strategies are processes on how to rescue t

24. When should a Damage Assessment Team change into Recovery mode?
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
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
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

25. Damage Assessment Team
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
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 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
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

26. Especially in a software development environment - what should be backed up?
Preventive mechanisms are put into place to try to reduce the possibility of the company experiencing a disaster and - if a disaster does hit - to lessen the amount of damage that will take place - Recovery strategies are processes on how to rescue t
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
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
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes

27. Calling Tree
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
A document that outlines who should be contacted in the event of a disaster - in what order - and who is responsible for doing the calling
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
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations

28. Continuity Planning
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!
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
A document that outlines who should be contacted in the event of a disaster - in what order - and who is responsible for doing the calling

29. What are the three main types of leased or rented offsite facilities?
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
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 -
Present it to management for written approval

30. Disaster Recovery Plan
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
Company A agrees to allow company B to use its facilities if company B is hit by a disaster - and vice versa. This is a cheaper way to go than the other offsite choices - but is not always the best choice because most environments are maxed out perta
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

31. What are the BCP team's responsibilities with regards to BCP planning?
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
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
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
Identifying regulatory and legal requirements that must be met - Identifying all possible vulnerabilities and threats - Estimating the possibilities of these threats and the loss potential - Performing a BIA - Outlining which departments - systems -

32. Remote Journaling
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
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
A method of transmitting data offsite - but it usually only includes moving the journal or transaction logs to the offsite facility - not the actual files. these logs contain the changes that have taken place to the individual files. Journaling is ef
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy

33. Tape Vaulting
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
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
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

34. Business Resumption Plan
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
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
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components

35. Why does Insurance exist?

36. What are the different types of recovery plans?
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
A document that outlines who should be contacted in the event of a disaster - in what order - and who is responsible for doing the calling
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

37. As a general rule of thumb - how far away should a backup facility be from the main facility?
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
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
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
It requires less resources and time

38. When should a company be prepared to interface with the press - customers - shareholders - and civic officials after a crisis?
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 -
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
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
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 -

39. What are the three types of disruptions that a facility can have and what does each mean?
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)
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
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover

40. Hot Site
A document that outlines who should be contacted in the event of a disaster - in what order - and who is responsible for doing the calling
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
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
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!

41. What information should a BCP and DR goal contain?
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
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
Make business continuity a part of every business decision - Insert the maintenance responsibilities into job description - Include maintenance in personnel evaluations - Perform internal audits that include disaster recovery and continuity documenta
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications

42. How do we know which data have changed and need to be backed up without having to look at every file's modification date?
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
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
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
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site

43. What is the main limitation of insurance coverage?

44. Reconstitution Phase
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
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
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
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

45. Synchronous Replication
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
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 -
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
Contact the local authorities

46. What are loss criteria that can be applied to individual threats that were identified in the BIA?
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)
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
Identifying regulatory and legal requirements that must be met - Identifying all possible vulnerabilities and threats - Estimating the possibilities of these threats and the loss potential - Performing a BIA - Outlining which departments - systems -
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.

47. Full Backup
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
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
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication

48. Electronic Vaulting

49. Cold Site
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 -
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes
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
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

50. If a company loses computing capabilities for a week - what is the chance they will go out of business (on average)?
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 -
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
65%
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