ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An enterprise is updating its business continuity plan for a potential influenza pandemic that could sideline up to 40 percent of employees for several weeks. The primary data center, power, and WAN links are expected to remain fully operational. Which measure should receive top priority in the pandemic response plan to ensure delivery of critical IT services during the outbreak?
Contract a geographically distant hot site and prepare automation scripts to fail over the entire data center.
Install additional diesel generators to guarantee uninterrupted power at the primary facility.
Cross-train personnel so that backup staff can perform all mission-critical IT operations if primary staff are absent.
Increase the frequency of off-site backups to nightly to minimize potential data loss.
Unlike natural disasters that threaten facilities or infrastructure, a pandemic principally affects the availability of people. Best-practice guidance from NIST and DHS recommends identifying minimum staffing levels and ensuring that multiple, qualified individuals can perform each mission-critical task. Cross-training staff (and documenting procedures) mitigates the risk that illness will remove all individuals who know how to run or restore key systems. Arranging a hot site, installing generators, or changing backup cycles help with physical or data loss scenarios but do little to address the primary pandemic risk-human resource shortages.
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