Description
On a per-device basis, this Pillar most commonly addresses company needs around:
Backup Management
- Maintaining Backup Solutions: Setting up automated backups for critical data.
- Monitoring Backup Jobs: Ensuring backups run successfully.
- Regular Backup Testing: Verifying that backups are complete, accurate, and restorable.
- Managing Retention Policies: Defining how long backups are stored for business needs.
- Securing Backup Data: Encrypting backups and ensuring access controls are in place.
- Cloud Backups: Ensuring backups are stored in a cloud data center.
- Managing Capacity: Ensuring there is enough storage for new backups and archives.
Disaster Recovery Planning
- Documenting Recovery Objectives (RPO & RTO): Defining acceptable data loss (Recovery Point Objective) and recovery time (Recovery Time Objective).
- Recovery Testing: Conducting regular drills to ensure recovery processes are effective.
- Coordinating with Leadership: Communicating recovery steps with key stakeholders.
- Implementing Business Continuity Strategies: Ensuring critical business functions can continue during a disaster.
Data Restoration and Recovery
- Data Restores for Users: Assisting employees with recovering lost or deleted files.
- Restoring Servers and Workstations After Failures: Recovering full system images and recovering clean backups after hardware or software failures, or cyber attacks.
- Troubleshooting Backup and Restore Failures: Diagnosing issues with backup software, storage, or network.
Compliance and Security
- Ensuring Compliance with Regulations (e.g., HIPAA, PCI, GDPR): Maintaining backup practices that meet industry regulations.
- Monitoring Backup Security Logs: Identifying unauthorized access attempts or backup anomalies.
Continuous Improvement and Reporting
- Reviewing and Updating Backup and Recovery Policies: Adjusting strategies based on business growth, new risks, and technology changes.
