Information Security Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

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economic trends, which depict IT budgets trending downward instead of upward

(IndustryWeek 2008).

Government Involvement in Business

Continuity and Disaster Recovery

e goal is not to eliminate the risk but to design business continuity and DR

strategies that generate more benefits to the community than the negative effect of

the costs incurred (Viscusi and Gayer 2002). is type of cost–benefit analysis and

risk- versus cost-based thinking is a critical component to consider when deciding

if business continuity and DR strategies should be implemented.

Facilitated Business Continuity and

Disaster Recovery Theory

One scalable and relatively easy way to make sure that all of your business IT

departments have ...