Feb 18, 2024
Why Corporations Should Start Looking into Disaster Recovery Plan for OT Systems
In today's cybersecurity landscape, many corporations are focused on ensuring the safety of their systems by implementing various cybersecurity measures from installing firewalls, IDS, IPS and performing system hardening. Ofcourse these are essential measures when it comes to securing OT systems but what about ensuring a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is in place?
Disaster recovery planning is crucial for organizations to ensure business continuity and minimize the impact of unforeseen events or disasters. Corporations should ensure they have protocols in place in case of any breach in cybersecurity resulting to systems needing to be shutoff to limit any potential damages and restarted again.
Some questions which corporations should consider when implementing disaster recovery planning such as:
-Which staff are responsible to initiate the disaster recovery process?
-How do they ensure the system is running on the latest program when restarting it?
-How do they conduct routine data storage and backup? Is it in-house or is it performed by a contractor?
There are many more questions which needs to be addressed in order to ensure a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is in place. To understand more, feel free to reach out to us.