Planning for disaster recovery

Managing risks is an important asset for every business or individual. The responsibility of this is tremendous for everyone involved in system administration. For all businesses, managing risks should be part of a wider risk management strategy. There are various types of risks in IT, starting from natural hazards directly impacting data centers or business locations, all the way up to cyber security threats. IT's footprint inside a company has exponentially grown in the last decade. Nowadays, there is no activity that does not involve some sort of IT operations being behind it, be it inside small businesses, big corporations, government agencies, or the health or education public sectors, just to give a few examples. Each activity is unique in its own way, so it needs a specific type of assessment. Unfortunately, risk management evolved, mostly with regards to the information security field, into a one-size-fits-all practice, based on checklists...