Chapter Summary

This chapter covered the essential elements of disaster recovery and business continuity planning. As a security practitioner, you should be intimately familiar with these concepts, as they play a vital role in ensuring the continued viability of your organization when disaster looms.

The key concepts identified in this chapter are as follows:

• Develop a preventive business continuity plan to ensure your organization is well situated to survive any disaster that might occur.

• Develop a disaster recovery plan to guide recovery and restoration operations in the event a disaster does impact routine business operations.