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Disaster recovery planning

Disaster recovery planning

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Disaster recovery planning

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- [Instructor] Business continuity programs are designed to keep a business up and running in the face of a disaster, but unfortunately, they don't always work. Sometimes, continuity controls fail, or the sheer magnitude of a disaster overwhelms the organization's capacity to continue operations. That's where disaster recovery begins. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity activities designed to restore a business to normal operations as quickly as possible following a disruption. The disaster recovery plan may include immediate measures that get operations working again temporarily, but the disaster recovery effort is not finished until the organization is completely back to normal. The disaster recovery plan may be triggered by an environmental natural disaster, such as a hurricane, or a person-made disaster, such as a ransomware attack. The source of disaster may be internal to the organization, such as a data center failure, or external, such as a power outage. In…

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