Some of the most important aspects of protecting availability within an organization are ensuring WAN service SLAs outlining agreed upon uptime exist and are acceptable, backing up data, creating a business continuity plan and by extension a disaster recovery plan, and implementing protection against DoS or DDOS attacks. One of the most basic forms of protecting availability is protecting server, network, and system uptime through use of an SLA. If an organization’s systems are not available for an acceptable percentage of overall time, then the systems themselves are of no use to said organization. In order to ensure data is consistently available when needed, especially in the event of data compromise or destruction, both on-site and remote backups of said data are warranted. This allows continuous access to data regardless of circumstance. In the event of a breach of security or disaster, organizations must have and implement a business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan to ensure the organization as a whole can react to and recover from events that interrupt that organization’s operations in an efficient manner. Lastly, implementing protection from DoS or DDoS attacks via a virtual private network or intrusion detection systems can ensure that in the event of these attacks, the availability of the organization’s data is not compromised.