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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. What should the BCP team do in the recovery strategy stage?
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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
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

2. What are the three types of disruptions that a facility can have and what does each mean?
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
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
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review

3. Why does Insurance exist?

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4. Disk Duplexing
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
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

5. What functions should be moved back first during the Reconstitution Phase?
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
After it has been tested
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
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

6. How are offsite backup facility contracts usually established?
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
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
Contact the local authorities
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

7. What is the main limitation of insurance coverage?

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

9. What are management's responsibilities with regards to BCP planning?
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
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
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
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value

10. What are some reasons why BCPs become outdated?

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11. Especially in a software development environment - what should be backed up?
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
After it has been tested
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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery

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

13. When should a Damage Assessment Team change into Recovery mode?
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
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 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
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

14. Tape Vaulting
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
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

15. Who should be responsible for notifying the appropriate authorities and who would those authorities be?
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
One person should be responsible... the authorities are the police department - security guards - fire department - emergency rescue - and management

16. Remote Journaling
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
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
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0

17. Damage Assessment Team
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
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
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
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

18. Reconstitution Phase
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
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Annually
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site

19. 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
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
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
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

20. At what point can a company have real confidence in a developed plan?
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
Annually
After it has been tested
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time

21. What are the benefits of using the Differential or Incremental backup methods?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
It requires less resources and time
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
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) -

22. Cold Site
The employees who carry out the most critical functions of the company who must be put back to work first
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
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
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

23. What is one of the best ways to work through the details of a BIA?
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
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team

24. Why do you need a combination of consultants and employees on the BCP team?
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
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
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
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

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

26. Redundant Site
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
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
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

27. Skeleton Crew
It requires less resources and time
The employees who carry out the most critical functions of the company who must be put back to work first
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
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production

28. What are the three main types of threats?
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
The outage time that can be endured by a company
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
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

29. IT Contingency Plan
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
65%
Establishes personnel safety and evacuation procedures
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application

30. NIST Steps for Business Continuity
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
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
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
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more

31. When should a company be prepared to interface with the press - customers - shareholders - and civic officials after a crisis?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors
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 -
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

32. How should a company - during the BIA phase - find out what the risks of its geographical location are? And how should they find out how to access emergency zones?
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
Contact the local authorities
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
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

33. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
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
The estimated lifetime of a piece of equipment... calculated by the vendor of the equipment or a third party
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place

34. How frequently should a company's insurance be reviewed?
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 the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones
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
Annually

35. How should a team break down recovery strategies?
Business process recovery - Facility recovery - Supply and technology recovery - User environment recovery - Data recovery
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
It requires less resources and time
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones

36. Hot 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
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
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
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

37. 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
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
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available

38. Business Resumption Plan
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
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

39. What format does management want to see in the BCP?
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
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
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
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 -

40. Incremental Backup
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
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

41. Checklist Test (Deckcheck Test)
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review
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
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
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

42. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review

43. What is the main goal of business continuity?
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
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
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

44. Structured Walk-Through Test
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
Backing up business data to tapes that are then manually transferred to an offsite facility by a courier or an employee... with automatic tape vaulting - the data are sent over a serial line to a backup tape system at the offsite facility. Electronic
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application

45. 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
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
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
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site

46. What are the different types of recovery plans?
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
Business Resumption Plan - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) - IT Contingency Plan - Crisis Communications Plan - Cyber Incident Response Plan - Disaster Recovery Plan
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
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

47. How do you determine how much coverage to obtain?
Annually
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
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
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

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

49. What is the difference between preventive mechanisms and recovery strategies?
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
Representatives from each department or functional area come together to over the plan to ensure its accuracy
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
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0

50. Asynchronous Replication
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 set of interrelated steps linked through specific decision activities to accomplish a specific task... business processes have starting and ending points and are repeatable
The primary and secondary data volumes are only a few milliseconds out of sync - so the replication is nearly real-time
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