Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity

[noid]

Re: April Meeting

We might want to split this off into another thread for more discussion, rather than to completely hijack noid's DC206 announcement.

Done............

[Thorn]

Re: April Meeting

Although we all tend to harp on Homeland Security for a number of very legitimate reasons, they have a pretty good website on emergency preparedness located at www.ready.gov.

The Ready America side has the usual checklists and kit lists that you might expect for home preparedness, while the Ready Business side of the site is geared toward SMBs and has a number of PDFs that can be downloaded to help in emergency planning. The business forms cover not only the obvious things like backups, but also the not so obvious things like planning for the number of desks, tables and chairs you might need if you were attempting to set up a business in a temporary location, or consideration of your options if a key supplier goes out of business during an emergency.

We might want to split this off into another thread for more discussion, rather than to completely hijack noid's DC206 announcement.

[theprez98]

Re: April Meeting

Disaster preparedness and disaster recovery could be a good presentation for Defcon-- it is security related, and theft of information is an issue when decentralization is considered, or remote storage of tape backup is included. Risk of EOL in hardware used to complete backups competes against laws that require certain market sectors to keep records for 5, 10 or 15 years. (What good is a backup tape if there is no hardwre to restore it to present systems?) Yet, there is even MORE that could be covered.

The topic is huge and has a huge security component. Would consider presenting at Defcon? (This is something I'd attend, to see if there are any unconventional shortcuts, or solutions to existing problems.)

I did some graduate work in homeland security/disaster preparedness and agree that it would be a very interesting topic and one that's probably not been discussed enough. If I wouldn't have already submitted a talk I'd consider collaborating on this one.

[TheCotMan]

Disaster preparedness and disaster recovery could be a good presentation for Defcon-- it is security related, and theft of information is an issue when decentralization is considered, or remote storage of tape backup is included. Risk of EOL in hardware used to complete backups competes against laws that require certain market sectors to keep records for 5, 10 or 15 years. (What good is a backup tape if there is no hardwre to restore it to present systems?) Yet, there is even MORE that could be covered.

The topic is huge and has a huge security component. Would consider presenting at Defcon? (This is something I'd attend, to see if there are any unconventional shortcuts, or solutions to existing problems.)