CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

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1. What are some appropriate and cost-effective preventative methods to better fortify a company from the impacts recognized in the BIA?
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
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 -
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
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


2. Full-Interruption Test
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
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
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
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


3. What are some of the characteristics you should look at when creating a BIA?
Each disk would have a corresponding mirrored disk that contains the exact same information
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
Annually


4. Disk Shadowing
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
Maximum tolerable downtime - Operational disruption and productivity - Financial considerations - Regulatory responsibilities - Reputation
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


5. Where does the Recovery Time Objective sit on a chart that keeps track of cost and time?
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created


6. 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?
1. Initiation Phase: goal statements - overview of concepts - roles and teams definitions - task definitions 2. Activation Phase: notification steps - damage assessment - plan activation 3. Recovery Phase: move to alternate site - restore processes -
Contact the local authorities
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
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 Impact Analysis (BIA)
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 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
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


8. Tape Vaulting
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
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
Lead the BCP team and oversee the development - implementation - and testing of the continuity and disaster recovery plans... this person needs to have direct access to management and have the credibility and authority to carry out leadership tasks


9. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
When it is time for the company to move back into its original site or a new site
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
An estimate of how long it will take to fix a piece of equipment and get it back into production
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created


10. Emergency Response Procedures
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe
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!
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


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


12. How do we know which data have changed and need to be backed up without having to look at every file's modification date?
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
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
The file system sets the archive bit of the file to 1 when a file is modified or created


13. As a general rule of thumb - how far away should a backup facility be from the main facility?
65%
Representatives from at least each of the following departments must be involved with not only the planning stages but also the testing and implementation stages: - Business Units - Senior Management - IT Department - Security Department - Communicat
A 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
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


14. 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
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
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 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)


15. What is the goal of Disaster Recovery?
It requires less resources and time
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
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
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!


16. NIST Steps for Business Continuity
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
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
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 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


17. What format does management want to see in the BCP?
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 -
All data are backed up and saved to some type of storage media. backup and restoration processes are very simplistic and straightforward with this method
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available


18. Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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 -
Copies of the BCP are distributed to the different departments and functional areas for review
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe


19. How do you determine how much coverage to obtain?
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
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
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site


20. Business Resumption Plan
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
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
Focuses on how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication


21. Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
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)
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
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
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support


22. Reciprocal Agreement (Mutual Aid)
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
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
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
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


23. How are offsite backup facility contracts usually established?
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
The 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
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
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


24. What is the main limitation of insurance coverage?

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25. Rolling Hot Site (Mobile Hot Site)
Define essential business functions and supporting departments - Identify interdependencies between these functions and departments - Discover all possible disruptions that could affect the mechanisms necessary to allow these departments to function
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
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)


26. Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
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
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
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


27. Cyber Incident Response Plan
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes
All data are backed up and saved to some type of storage media. backup and restoration processes are very simplistic and straightforward with this method
The 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
Focuses on malware - hackers - intrusions - attacks - and other security issues. outlines procedures for incident response


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

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29. Differential Backup
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!
Back up the files that have been modified since the LAST FULL BACKUP. this process does not change the archive bit value
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
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


30. What functions should be moved back first during the Reconstitution Phase?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
The least critical functions... it ensures that the critical operations of the company are not negatively affected
When the power goes on the computers - it's also going to go out for the phones


31. 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
Hot Site - Warm Site - Colde Site
65%
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


32. What issues does a company need to look at when determining when it should move into Reconstitution Phase?
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
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
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.
Use scenario-based exercises as a group to see what issues might crop up


33. Continuity Planning
Provides methods and procedures for dealing with longer-term outages and disaster.
Reduce the risk of financial loss by improving the company's ability to recover and restore operations
No - but the team may recognize that the company is at risk because it does not have these procedures in place
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


34. Incremental Backup
The outage time that can be endured by a company
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0
Present it to management for written approval
It's used when threats are identified that cannot be prevented. Taking on the full risk of these threats is often dangerous


35. What are some components required for the project plan?
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
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 -
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.


36. What are the steps of a BIA?

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37. What tasks should the BCP team carry out and have addressed in the resulting plan?
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
After it has been tested
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
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


38. Cyberinsurance
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
Establishes senior management and a headquarters after a disaster. outlines roles and authorities - orders of succession - and individual role tasks
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
The primary and secondary copies are always in sync - which provides true real-time duplication


39. IT Contingency Plan
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
Plan for systems - networks - and major applications recovery procedures after disruptions. a contingency plan should be developed for each major system and application
Annually
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


40. Who should be responsible for notifying the appropriate authorities and who would those authorities be?
One person should be responsible... the authorities are the police department - security guards - fire department - emergency rescue - and management
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
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 how to re-create the necessary business processes that need to be reestablished instead of focusing on IT components


41. Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
A promise that a service will be fulfilled within a certain timeframe
The outage time that can be endured by a company
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
65%


42. Once the project plan is completed - what should be done before further steps are taken?
There is more than one disk controller - so if one fails - the other is ready and available
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
Backup all the files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. this process sets the archive bit to 0


43. Why does Insurance exist?

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44. How can an organization keep the BCP up to date?
Computer systems - Personnel - Procedures - Tasks - Supplies - Vendor support
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team
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
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


45. What is the main goal of business continuity?
To resume business as quickly as possible - spending the least amount of money
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
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
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


46. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?
Annually
Contact the local authorities
At the intersection of the cost of disruption and the cost to recover
Damage assessment team - legal team - media relations team - network recovery team - relocation team - restoration team - salvage team - security team - telecommunications team


47. Business Process
Objective-to-task mapping - Resource-to-task mapping - Milestones - Budget estimates - Success factors - Deadlines
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
A new type of coverage that insures losses caused by denial-of-service attacks - malware damages - hackers - electronic theft - privacy-related lawsuits and more
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


48. What are the three types of disruptions that a facility can have and what does each mean?
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 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)
Object code - source code - libraries - patches and fixes
They want information stated in monetary - quantitative terms - not in subjective - qualitative terms.


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

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50. Crisis Communications Plan
Required roles - Required resources - Input and output mechanisms - Workflow steps - Required time for completion - How they interface with other processes
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
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
Before too many people come to their own conclusions about the company and begin to start false rumors