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Business Continuity Plan & Disaster Recovery Plan

You will be given a case study to solve from the textbook. While your responses will vary, properly documenting your response from valid resources is a requirement. Thoughtful opinions based on the literature, and from the textbook are necessary, so be sure to review the chapter prior to completing these activities.

Case Study 1 Chapter 2:

Read Page# 48 and answer discussion questions on page 86- (Submitted in iLearn week 6)

Discussion Questions

1. In the opening scenario, the group was practicing for a snow emergency. Other than power outages, what incident cards would you expect to see? For each of the incident cards you listed, what would be the proper response of the organization?

2. How often should an organization rehearse its contingency plans?

3. Who should coordinate rehearsal of the contingency plans? Why would that be the appropriate person?

4. What degree of cross-training between the various roles in the plans is most effective? Identify the advantages and disadvantages of such a cross-training plan. What trade-offs do you think exist between extensive and minimal cross-training?

5. Notice that Amanda Wilson was not at this rehearsal. Do you think it is important that the CIO, or even the CEO, participate in this kind of readiness exercise? Why or why not?

6. How can you make progress in contingency planning in the face of resistance from upper management?

Case Study 2 Chapter 4:

Read Page# 132 and answer discussion questions on page 163- (Submitted in iLearn week 6)

Discussion Questions

1. Why did the presence of a live attacker cause more concern than a scripted attack?

2. What observations made by Susan led her to decide she had to disconnect the company from the Internet?

3. What concrete milestones do you think will have to be met before the company can reconnect to the Internet?

Case Study 3 Chapter 7:

Read Page# 268 and answer discussion questions on page 310- (Submitted in iLearn week 6)

Discussion Questions

1. Was Osbert acting ethically when he wrote his worm program? On what do you base your position?

2. Was Osbert's professor acting ethically by assigning him the worm program? On what do you base your position?

3. Who is responsible for this catastrophe? Osbert? His professor? The student that changed the network configuration? The university? On what do you base your position?

Text Book Reference:

Whitman M., Mattord H., Green A (2014). Principles of Incident Response & Disaster Recovery. 2nd Edition. Course Technology, Cengage Learning.

Attachment:- CaseStudies.rar