Discussion: Disaster Recovery
1. Discuss the technical skills required to have a CSIRT response team consisting of employees with other job duties (i.e., not a full-time CSIRT job category)? Why or why not? What factors will influence their decision?
2. Discuss what role end-users typically play in incident reporting? Should end users be encouraged to report suspicious occurrences? If so, why; if not, why not. What factors typically influence the end-user decisions to report (or not report) a potential incident?
3. Your organization has approximately 10TB of data and you need to decide if your organization should have on-site or offsite tape storage. Your organization must be able to easily recover data no older than one month, as an operational requirement. Your organization's further requirement is that recovery operations must resume at minimal levels for all systems within two weeks of a total catastrophe at the data center. Decide how your organization should house its backups.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.