Physical Security and Disaster Recovery You manage the IT security for a company. How would you plan for a natural disaster that rendered the building and servers inoperable? Where would you store backups? What would be your plan for recovering normal operations? Explain the rationale for each of your choices. Also indicate the type of […]
State the rationale for a “team” approach in emergency operations planning. What are the benefits and hindrances of working in a team environment? How does a planner bring together the various and disparate partners that form a team?
Why Plan? In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill, questions of local, state, and federal disaster readiness began to be addressed. In that vein, as emergency operations planners, it is important to explore the importance of emergency planning and to answer the question, “why plan?” Whether you are building institutional relationships, […]
Determine which one of them you will use to discuss a physical attack, which one for a cyber event, and the remaining one for a natural disaster.
Scenario: You are working at a government agency and your section recently received a new intern, River, to learn about critical infrastructures. River will be with your section for at least six months, perhaps permanently. The section chief tasked you to write a short paper on three of the critical infrastructures for River this week […]