{"id":282,"date":"2024-02-13T00:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/?p=282"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:38:24","slug":"protecting-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/2024\/02\/13\/protecting-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"As a CISO for a publicly traded company, ensuring the availability of my systems is crucial. Some of the protections I would implement are as follows;<br \/><br \/>1. Redundancy and Failover Systems: I would implement redundant systems and failover mechanisms to ensure continuous operation. Even if one system fails, it wouldn&#8217;t critically impact operations. <br \/><br \/>2. Institute Load Balancing: I would ensure that the amount of data exchange could be handled and scaled to prevent overload on the infrastructure (i.e., servers), thus ensuring consistent availability of services. <br \/><br \/>3. Develop and execute a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP): I would develop a DRP that would regularly test exhaustive backup and disaster recovery procedures that would quickly aid in recovering a catastrophic event (e.g., natural disaster, sandworm attack, etc&#8230;). Regular backups of critical data and systems to minimize the impact of data loss or corruption of assets. <br \/><br \/>4. Conduct regular Cyber Security events with Endpoint Security Systems: This system would implement services like Denial of Service attacks protection, Monitoring and Alerting, and Patch Management. <br \/><br \/>Implementing these protections would provide a deterrent and reduce the risk of data systems and services not being available. Using the NIST guidance, CIA Triad would aid in safeguarding my company&#8217;s operations and customer base. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a CISO for a publicly traded company, ensuring the availability of my systems is crucial. Some of the protections I would implement are as follows; 1. Redundancy and Failover Systems: I would implement redundant systems and failover mechanisms to ensure continuous operation. Even if one system fails, it wouldn&#8217;t critically impact operations. 2. Institute&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/2024\/02\/13\/protecting-availability\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":28669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/renardheath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}