Mastering™ Network Security, Second Edition

Chapter 11. Disaster Prevention and Recovery

In March 2002, Gartner Research published a report stating that only 35 percent of small-to medium-sized businesses have a disaster recovery plan in place. Whether related to weather, fire, theft, network service disruption, hurricane, or human error, the remaining 65 percent of these companies have opened themselves to cost-consuming outages that affect not only their financial performance, but their credibility in the eyes of their customers.

Disaster prevention refers to the precautionary steps you take to ensure that any disruption of your organization's resources does not affect your day-to-day operations. Think of disaster prevention as insurance: you invest money in case you might need it—but ...