{"id":289,"date":"2026-02-25T23:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/?p=289"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:32:02","slug":"protecting-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/2026\/02\/25\/protecting-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I were the CISO of a publicly traded company, I would focus mainly on making sure our systems stay up and running at all times. One of the first things I would put in place is strong backup systems so that if there is a natural disaster, cyberattack, or system failure, our data can be restored quickly and easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would also use redundant servers, which means if one server goes down, another one can take over right away so the company does not experience major downtime. Having 24\/7 monitoring would also be important so we can catch problems early before they turn into something serious. I would make sure systems are regularly updated and patched to fix security weaknesses that could cause outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, I would create a cybersecurity department that is responsible for protecting systems, responding to incidents, and keeping everything secure. Lastly, I would have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place so that if there is an outage, our software and services do not completely shut down and can recover quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, all of these steps would help keep the company running smoothly and ensure availability of our systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were the CISO of a publicly traded company, I would focus mainly on making sure our systems stay up and running at all times. One of the first things I would put in place is strong backup systems so that if there is a natural disaster, cyberattack, or system failure, our data can&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/2026\/02\/25\/protecting-availability\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32041,"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\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/veraofosuaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}