November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 27m
English
The intent of policies covering the general security of computer systems is to make provisions that keep the systems running and available to the business process. Thus, factors such as maintenance and outages (planned and unplanned) become the focus in this section.
A fundamental denial of service, especially in large systems, is unavailability because of a failure that could have been prevented. Some people have told me that preventative maintenance is a common-sense operating procedure, but I have seen companies neglect this aspect of their infrastructure. By not having a policy requiring preventative maintenance, your organization can run the risk of allowing fundamental problems ...
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