Question

Define and describe disaster recovery and business continuity. Consider and evaluate a business with which you are familiar. Discuss potential threats to the business operations and describe ways you would mitigate such risks.

Answer 1

Disaster Recovery is nothing but the subset of the business continuity. For designing a proper disaster recovery strategy, the risk management and the business impact analysis needed to be finished. The steps helps in identifying the information technology services which can basically support the critical business activities of the organization. The strategies help the situation to bring into the recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. A perfect disaster recovery plan helps in achieving the business continuity even when the business is hit by critical situation and events.

Business continuity is nothing but the organization's ability to ensure the operations and the core business functions which are not severely impacted by the disaster or the critical events which might leads to system offline. A proper business continuity plan is a process which led by the information technology of implementing the tactics that is used to restore the normal business without losing any data or any business loss.

Most of the online business such as Amazon, AirBnb are well suited with disaster recovery plan. Threats can be cyber attack or any disaster happens over a region which could damage these businesses continuity, but these businesses have multiple datacenters over the world and even in case of of the DC went down, the other datacenters can serve the purpose and thus ensures business continuity as well as well maintained disaster recovery strategies.