Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery

[Philip Rothstein <pjr () ROTHSTEIN COM>]

Tony,

Here are three discussion lists which focus on Disaster Recovery (both
business continuity and IT):

Disaster Recovery Journal                       www.drj.com
Rothstein Associates Inc.                       www.rothstein.com
Survive (The Business Continuity Group) www.survive.com

The Business/Continuity/Disaster Recovery field, while not as large as
Information Security, is alive and well. You'll find links at each of these
sites to dozens of other sites addressing DR, and hundreds of books at
www.DisasterRecoveryBooks.com.

Funny, but some DR professionals look at infosecurity as a subset of
business continuity...

Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI

At 11:01 PM 11/13/2000, Tony Tony wrote:
> Members
>
> Does anyone know of a list serve that specializes in discussions related
> to Disaster Recovery of mainframe/client-server systems. Seems like when
> we think of IT security, disaster recovery is just not the current hot
> topic. However, with the rapid deployment of national computer
> applications that integrate with multiple data centers,  extranets, ISP's,
> VPN's, etc..how do you plan for disaster recovery??  To me, this is just
> as big of a computer security risk, as someone breaking into your computer
> systems. Has it become to complex?  Are we just playing down the
> issue?  In the old days with mainframe computers it was pretty straight
> forward..however today..different story.
>
> In my current job, I am a firewall administrator and also head up a team
> for the deployment of intrusion detection and penetration security
> tools.  I am still baffled that no one in IT seems to care much about
> disaster recovery. Maybe, I am just not hanging out with the right types
> of IT folks.  However, I have worked for a number of companies and
> disaster recovery, just does not seem to be an important issue when you
> think about computer security.
>
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Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, President
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