Week 08: Security Operations

For this week’s “In the News”, research a recent article that relates how an organization was benefitted by their business continuity program, or suffered due to the lack of an adequate program? What are the key lessons learned from the article?

Answer one of the following questions:

1. Considering that business continuity does not support day-to-day operations until a crisis situation, how does one justify the design, implementation, maintenance, and testing for business continuity system(s)?
2. When using third-parties, how would you gain adequate confidence in their ability to maintain availability for their systems? What techniques or solutions would you use?