Consolidated Database Risks and Mitigating Controls

["Delacruz, Jay J." <delacrj () WFU EDU>]

Educause Team,

Anybody want to share their experience with consolidated databases? In
particular; risks of that specific architecture and what mitigating
controls were used. What risks apply to data loss, disaster recovery,
business continuity planning etc..?

 

"Putting all your critical assets in one basket."  Great idea or is it
an unnecessary risk?

 

Thanks ahead for any input... :-)

 

Jay Delacruz, CISSP

Information Systems Security Department

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem NC 27109

delacrj () wfu edu

336-782-0116