CHAPTER 5

Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Incident Response Concepts

This chapter discusses the following topics:

•  Incident response

•  Business continuity

•  Disaster recovery

This chapter explores how organizations respond to and recover from security incidents, disasters, and other events that impact an organization’s operations. Generally, there are three aspects of handling incidents, and organizations typically define plans and processes for each of these three functions as discussed next.

•  Incident response involves planning, processes, and tools for how an organization prepares for and responds to security incidents. Typically, organizations try to predict the types of incidents that are most likely to occur ...

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