Disaster Recovery in Network Security

Disaster recovery planning ensures businesses can recover from critical events like natural disasters, cyberattacks, or hardware failures to minimize downtime. The plan documents recovery processes and prioritizes business operations, showing which should recover first and expected downtimes. It also outlines preventative measures, such as server room access controls, environmental sensors, RAID storage, regular backups, and maintaining off-site recovery locations. Having a thorough disaster recovery plan in place helps organizations efficiently recover data and operations after disruptions.

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Computer Security - Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is generally a planning process and it produces a document which ensures
businesses to solve critical events that affect their activities. Such events can be a natural
disaster (earthquakes, flood, etc.), cyber–attack or hardware failure like servers or routers.
As such having a document in place it will reduce the down time of business process from the
technology and infrastructure side. This document is generally combined with Business
Continuity Plan which makes the analyses of all the processes and prioritizes them according to
the importance of the businesses. In case of a massive disruption it shows which process
should be recovered firstly and what should be the downtime. It also minimizes the application
service interruption. It helps us to recover data in the organized process and help the staff to
have a clear view about what should be done in case of a disaster.

Requirements to Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster recovery starts with an inventory of all assets like computers, network equipment,
server, etc. and it is recommended to register by serial numbers too. We should make an
inventory of all the software and prioritize them according to business importance.
An example is shown in the following table −

Systems Down Disaster Preventions Solution strategy Recover fully

Time type

Restore the Fix the primary server

Payroll 8 Server We take
backups in the and restore up to date
system hours damaged backup daily
Backup Server data

You should prepare a list of all contacts of your partners and service providers, like ISP contact
and data, license that you have purchased and where they are purchased. Documenting all your
Network which should include IP schemas, usernames and password of servers.

Preventive steps to be taken for Disaster Recovery

The server room should have an authorized level. For example: only IT personnel
should enter at any given point of time.
In the server room there should be a fire alarm, humidity sensor, flood sensor and a
temperature sensor.
These are more for prevention. You can refer the following image.

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At the server level, RAID systems should always be used and there should always be a
spare Hard Disk in the server room.
You should have backups in place, this is generally recommended for local and off-site
backup, so a NAS should be in your server room.
Backup should be done periodically.
The connectivity to internet is another issue and it is recommended that the
headquarters should have one or more internet lines. One primary and one secondary
with a device that offers redundancy.
If you are an enterprise, you should have a disaster recovery site which generally is
located out of the city of the main site. The main purpose is to be as a stand-by as in
any case of a disaster, it replicates and backs up the data.

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