Disaster Planning

Disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning are also an important part of a complete security solution. As an employee, you might not have any involvement in these plans whatsoever. If that’s the case, realize that keeping the details of these plans from the general population of employees is in and of itself a security precaution. The disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan can be used for malicious purposes if they get into the wrong hands. It is common practice to give only relevant portions of the plans to just those specific individuals who are responsible for carrying out sections of the larger plan when an emergency actually occurs.

If you happen to be a person with responsibilities within ...

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