Information Security: Principles and Practices 2nd Edition by Jim Breithaupt, Mark S. Merkow

Exercise 3

Defending Your Company from Disaster

1. Create a fictitious company or organization. Describe the nature of its business, its location, the number of employees, and so forth.

2. Identify the challenges you would face in keeping your company running in the event of a disaster or interruption.

3. Prioritize the assets. Determine what mission-critical functions and systems would need to be recovered first, second, and so forth.

4. Describe some strategies for recovering these systems and processes.