Episode 61 — Support Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Objectives
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning connect directly to the CSSLP focus on availability, resiliency, and risk treatment across the software lifecycle. This episode explains how to identify critical business services, map them to specific applications and data stores, and understand how interruptions would affect customers, regulators, and internal operations. You will hear how to define recovery time and recovery point objectives in language that aligns with business expectations, not just infrastructure capabilities, and how these objectives drive design decisions about redundancy, replication, and failover patterns. The discussion also clarifies the roles of continuity plans, disaster recovery runbooks, and supporting inventories, showing how each document provides a different lens on the same underlying risk.
Putting continuity and recovery objectives into practice requires a combination of architecture, process, and regular testing. Examples walk through designing restoration sequences that prioritize identity, networking, and core data platforms ahead of less critical services, and show how to ensure backups are not only present but encrypted, isolated, and regularly validated through full restore exercises. Scenarios explore handling loss of a primary data center, region-wide cloud outages, and supplier failures, emphasizing how communication plans and manual workarounds complement technical recovery actions. You also see how post-exercise reviews feed into updated RTOs, RPOs, and design improvements, which is precisely the feedback loop the exam expects you to recognize in scenario questions. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
