Understanding the Threats
An IT staff must anticipate and prepare for a wide range of system threats. The following sections examine common threats, how IT teams traditionally tried to mitigate threat risks, and how cloud-based solutions may further mitigate risks. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to restore a business to 100 percent following a disaster. Businesses, as such, will define a recovery point objective (RPO) that specifies the level to which data must be restored and a recovery time objective (RTO) that specifies the maximum downtime that can occur before the company must resume operations.
One of the first steps to develop a disaster-recovery plan is to identify the assets (people, processes, and things) that you want to ...
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