CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

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1. At what point can a company have real confidence in a developed plan?
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
After it has been tested
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
The outage time that can be endured by a company


2. What are some of the things you have to consider when it comes to supply and tech recovery?
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
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. 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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery


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


4. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
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 -
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site


5. Full Backup
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication


6. Business Resumption Plan
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
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
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
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


7. What tasks should the BCP team carry out and have addressed in the resulting plan?
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
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
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
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


8. Parallel Test
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
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
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


9. When should a Damage Assessment Team change into Recovery mode?
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
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
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
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes


10. Should the BCP team be responsible for setting up and maintaining the company's data classification procedures?
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
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


11. What are some reasons why BCPs become outdated?


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


13. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
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
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
The employees who carry out the most critical functions of the company who must be put back to work first


14. Executive Succession Planning
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 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
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
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!


15. Electronic Vaulting


16. Once the project plan is completed - what should be done before further steps are taken?
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
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
Present it to management for written approval
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response


17. Cyberinsurance
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
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
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes


18. If a company loses computing capabilities for a week - what is the chance they will go out of business (on average)?
65%
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
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party


19. What should the BCP team do in the recovery strategy stage?
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
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
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
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy


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


21. What are the three main types of leased or rented offsite facilities?
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
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 -
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


22. Damage Assessment Team
Contact the local authorities
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 -
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 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


23. What does the BCP team need to understand about critical business processes?
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes
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
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
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


24. Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
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
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
The outage time that can be endured by a company
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


25. Warm Site


26. Checklist Test (Deckcheck Test)
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
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
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


27. What are some of the characteristics you should look at when creating a BIA?
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
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


28. Structured Walk-Through Test
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
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
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
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy


29. How frequently should a company's insurance be reviewed?
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
Annually
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
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


30. What is the general structure of a BCP?
After it has been tested
It requires less resources and time
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications
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 -


31. Disk Mirroring
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
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 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
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information


32. What are the three main types of threats?
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
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
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
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) -


33. What are loss criteria that can be applied to individual threats that were identified in the BIA?
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
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
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines


34. Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
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


35. Salvage Team
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
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 senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
Management support


36. Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
They should make sure there are at least two copies of the company's operating system and critical applications
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks


37. What is the goal of Disaster Recovery?
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
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
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 least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected


38. Continuity Planning
One person should be responsible... the authorities are the police department - security guards - fire department - emergency rescue - and management
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site


39. Emergency Response Procedures
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value
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
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!
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


40. How are offsite backup facility contracts usually established?
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe
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
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components


41. What is one of the big issues with VoIP and disaster recovery?


42. Especially in a software development environment - what should be backed up?
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
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
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!
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes


43. How should a team break down recovery strategies?
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy


44. Where does the Recovery Time Objective sit on a chart that keeps track of cost and time?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
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
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover


45. Cyber Incident Response Plan
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes
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


46. Restoration Team
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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
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
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


47. Asynchronous Replication
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
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
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy


48. 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)?


49. Business Process
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
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
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


50. Disk Duplexing
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
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