Information Security: The Evolution of Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery

The world of business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) has dramatically changed over the past few years

Planning for potential outages used to be quite simple in the mainframe world. We did tape backups and, if something went wrong, we simply reloaded a tape or card deck and we were back in operation.

Today, the concept of simply returning our computer systems to an operational state is not sufficient to ensure the survival of the business. We have had to adapt and look at recovery from disruptive events as a business problem, not just an IT problem.

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The concept of recovery from a disaster has been expanded and now includes:
  • Disaster recovery
  • Business recovery/resumption
  • Contingency planning and management
  • Crisis management

 

Mike Hager

Enterprise Security Advisor
Mainline Information Systems

 
 

 
 
 

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