BIA Planning
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When doing BIA, RTO and RPO planning. What events do you plan for?
Fire, Earthquake, dead servers, dead switch, dead firewall, power outage.
What else are reasonable items to plan for?
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flood, tornado
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Dead power supply
Network loops
hypervisor failure (non-hardware) -
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Overheating (AC failure)
Sprinkler system failure (or just turn on) -
Faulty server component outside of power supply (fan, raid controller, cpu, ram, motherboard)
Circuit breaker fault
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UPS failure, brown out, blackout, power surge.
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Really depends on your facility, more than IT. Some things, like power issues, pretty much apply to everyone because they are so common. Flood, really depends on your particular risks in your area.
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@DustinB3403 said in BIA Planning:
@Dashrender said in BIA Planning:
flood, tornado
Yeah, not super relevant to the area, but yeah.
Eh,.. yea,.. yes no.
your flood could be caused by the fire department....Burst pipe (frozen),...
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You don't have randsomware attack on the list?
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@Mike-Davis said in BIA Planning:
You don't have randsomware attack on the list?
Didn't get that far in the thought process.
Ransomware infection.
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Consider all of the risks and categorize them.
- Natural
- Government/Political
- Physical (Power/Physical Access/Hardware failure)
- Cyber (Malware/misconfiguration/etc)
Then I would address and mitigate each one. Also consider cost of downtime and potential impact to business. That's how your going to be able to assess motivations to risks. What is overkill and what is appropriate.
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I also would plan for robbery and physical damage by staff.
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@dbeato said in BIA Planning:
I also would plan for robbery and physical damage by staff.
Hence the "Physical Access"
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@NerdyDad YEah, sorry I glossed over it and when I pressed submit while ready your post (Face Palm).
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@dbeato said in BIA Planning:
@NerdyDad YEah, sorry I glossed over it and when I pressed submit while ready your post (Face Palm).
It's late. I get it.
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@NerdyDad No Excuse though for me :) I am wide awake...
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Nowhere near bedtime here. Just finished dinner.
