[Cisspstudy] Interpretation please

[Hari Shankara Krishna.H]

Hello Phil,

I am also preparing for CISSP but have'nt reached till the chapter Business
Continuity & Disaster Recovery. But I tried to understand this question
logically and this is my take on it:

Question: A disaster has occured (may be a fire outbreak), and this has
impacted my business. Now I need to measure the impact to understand what is
the loss & liability. For that, out of the four options, I will consider
Choice A as I need to know what are the legal & regulatory situations that
I'll have to face. I'll also consider Choice B, as I can know the extent of
impact on my business, to good extent, by knowing how much it has effected
my company's reputation. Also, I'll consider my employees's morale, b'cos if
this fire outbreak makes them feel insecure and unsafe and want to switch to
another company, which is bad and so this disaster has a considerable
impact.

Maximum Tolerable Downtime, is a value that is fixed for various time-driven
Operations. This doesnt vary with different disasters. For example, if I am
an ISP and provide bandwidth to CGI, then MTD is something that my company
and your company would have agreed upon while signing the deal. So during a
fire outbreak I would consider this value to make sure that the internet
link is up before MTD expires, but wouldnt consider it to understand the
impact of fire outbreak on my business, they're not related.

I hope that I've helped you understand the question...:-) And thanks for
sharing this question, it did make me think for a while. [?]

Any other viewpoints from others please?

*Regards,
Hari Shankar,
Security Consultant, Bangalore.*

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Lamey, Phillip <phillip.lamey at cgi.com>wrote:

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With Best Regards,
Hari Shankara Krishna.H
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