Introducing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Chapter 10, “Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and the Cloud,” examines business continuity and disaster recovery in detail. Within Chapter 10, you will learn that companies will always face a variety of risks. Every company’s goal is to evaluate its risks and to determine ways to mitigate (reduce) them. When you work with security issues, the same technique applies. To start, you must determine where your system is vulnerable and then you must take steps to reduce the vulnerability. The following sections examine common security threats.

Understanding Data-Storage Wiping

In Chapter 6, “Data Storage in the Cloud,” you learned that many facilities offer cloud-based storage. Often, ...

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