CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

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1. IT Contingency Plan
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
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 set of interrelated steps linked through specific decision activities to accomplish a specific task... business processes have starting and ending points and are repeatable
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application


2. Continuity Planning Policy Statement
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
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


3. Why do you need a combination of consultants and employees on the BCP team?
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
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
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 -
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover


4. Occupant Emergency Plan
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
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
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.


5. As a general rule of thumb - how far away should a backup facility be from the main facility?
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
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
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


6. Reciprocal Agreement (Mutual Aid)
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
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
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


7. 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
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
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review
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


8. Redundant Site
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
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
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
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


9. Synchronous Replication
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 primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
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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


10. Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks


11. Restoration Team
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
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
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


12. Full Backup
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
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
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
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors


13. Damage Assessment Team
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
Management support
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
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


14. 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
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
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
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


15. Cyber Incident Response Plan
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
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response
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
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more


16. Electronic Vaulting

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17. Continuity Planning
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
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Contact the local authorities
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


18. What are the three main types of threats?
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
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


19. Structured Walk-Through Test
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created
It requires less resources and time
The outage time that can be endured by a company
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy


20. Cyberinsurance
It requires less resources and time
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 new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes


21. Full-Interruption Test
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. 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
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
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


22. What are management's responsibilities with regards to BCP planning?
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)
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
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


23. Rolling Hot Site (Mobile Hot Site)
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
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
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)


24. What are loss criteria that can be applied to individual threats that were identified in the BIA?
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
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
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)
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


25. Where does the Recovery Time Objective sit on a chart that keeps track of cost and time?
Contact the local authorities
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones


26. Disk Duplexing
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
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
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
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


27. What is the goal of Disaster Recovery?
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
To minimize the effects of a disaster and to take the necessary steps to ensure that the resources - personnel - and business processes are able to resume operation in a timely manner. A disaster recovery plan is carried out when everything is still
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
It requires less resources and time


28. Role of the Business Continuity Coordinator
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Annually
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
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


29. Especially in a software development environment - what should be backed up?
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
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
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 is the main reason to develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans?

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31. What is the main limitation of insurance coverage?

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32. Salvage Team
Contact the local authorities
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
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
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


33. What are some reasons why BCPs become outdated?

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34. 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
After it has been tested
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
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


35. What are some components required for the project 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
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
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
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines


36. Service Level Agreement (SLA)
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
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
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe


37. Once the project plan is completed - what should be done before further steps are taken?
Present it to management for written approval
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
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 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


38. What should an organization do to assure that they will always be able to get some kind of support for their specialized and critical applications (even in the event that the software vendor goes out of business)?

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39. If a company loses computing capabilities for a week - what is the chance they will go out of business (on average)?
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
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
65%
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


40. Who should be responsible for notifying the appropriate authorities and who would those authorities be?
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
One person should be responsible... the authorities are the police department - security guards - fire department - emergency rescue - and management
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
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


41. Checklist Test (Deckcheck Test)
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
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review
The outage time that can be endured by a company
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


42. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?
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
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
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
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 -


43. What is one of the best ways to work through the details of a BIA?
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place
The employees who carry out the most critical functions of the company who must be put back to work first
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
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up


44. How do you determine how much coverage to obtain?
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
65%
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
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


45. Cold Site
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
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
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
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


46. Asynchronous Replication
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
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
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time


47. What is the most critical part of establishing and maintaining a current continuity plan?
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) -
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
Management support
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


48. What are some of the resources that would be required for individual business processes?
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
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
65%
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support


49. How are offsite backup facility contracts usually established?
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
65%
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


50. Incremental Backup
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
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
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0