When the admin runs out, what about your business continuity

Maintaining business continuity, i.e. the ability to undisturbed implementation of the main processes that bring income to the company, is one of the tasks that are often delegated to representatives of the IT department. Due to the high involvement of information technology in business processes, the IT department seems to be the cell best prepared to handle any unforeseen situations in the form of hardware failure, user errors or deliberate actions by intruders. Is this assumption correct? Unfortunately, not entirely.

Indeed, technology is one of the main factors that have the greatest impact on the performance of any organization and, at the same time, a factor that fails relatively often. Therefore, when we think about business continuity, first of all, solutions aimed at ensuring operation in the event of failure are verified. They are most often limited to redundancy, i.e. redundancy that allows uninterrupted operation in the event of damage to one of the system components. Another category of security are backup systems, which are to make the environment immune to situations related to data loss as a result of a failure, user error or deliberate action to our detriment. Both backup systems and solutions ensuring high availability (HA) are something without which the IT department would not be able to fulfill its business function. If they were not there, the first failure would have serious consequences for those responsible for maintaining the ICT environment. Continue ...