Episode 38 — Build and Validate Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) ensure that essential services survive disruption, a major exam theme. We define BC as maintaining operations during adverse events and DR as restoring systems afterward. You’ll learn the relationship among Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), along with critical dependencies like alternate sites, power, communications, and vendor support. The episode explains how policies, plans, and exercises demonstrate preparedness and how documentation links strategic objectives to tested capabilities.
We move into practice with validation techniques and examples. These include mapping BIA outputs to tiered recovery priorities, designing hot, warm, and cold sites, and testing failover procedures under realistic conditions. We discuss coordinating BC/DR with incident response, maintaining currency of contact lists, and storing plans in accessible yet secure formats. Troubleshooting covers untested recovery scripts, overlooked dependencies, and misaligned recovery priorities that favor convenience over business need. You’ll also learn how evidence—test reports, sign-offs, corrective action logs—proves readiness during audits and on the exam. By understanding the BC/DR lifecycle, you can answer scenario questions that focus on continuity choices and demonstrate professional competence in sustaining operations. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
