Continuidad de negocio y recuperación en caso de catástrofe (BCDR)

Definición de Continuidad de negocio y recuperación en caso de catástrofe (BCDR)

“Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre”, or “BCDR” for short, is used throughout the IT industry as a benchmark for organization resiliency in the face of unplanned disruptions. ‘Business Continuity’ refers to an organization’s level of readiness to continue mission-critical operations throughout and after an emergency or disruption.

‘Recuperación en caso de desastre’ refers to an organization’s process of regaining access and functionality to infrastructure or critical systems the event of a disruption. Potential disruptions impacting today’s businesses include, but are not limited to, security breaches, power outages, natural disasters, human error, and more.

Ideal Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre strategies are designed to minimize downtown and data loss. ‘Business continuity’ delivers a proactive focus on conducting organizational procedures, while disaster recovery offers reactive controls to get systems, infrastructure, and data back online.

An organization’s IT department will have BCDR strategies and plans in place for responses to both general and specific types of disruptions. C-suite executives will usually be involved in the development of an organization’s overarching BCDR plans as part of a holistic strategy to mitigate and minimize business risk. IT departments will adapt and update their BCDR strategies based on changes to their infrastructure and changes to the capabilities and severity of the possible disruptions they could experience.

¿Cómo funciona el BCDR?

The goal of an organization’s Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre (BCDR) strategy and plan is to achieve business resiliency. Today organizations are facing a myriad of unique and complex challenges and threats. Therefore, an organization’s BCDR plan should account for a variety of disaster scenarios, ranging from accidental deletions to ransomware and cyberattacks to fallout from natural disasters. Developing an effective Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre planPor lo general, requiere una planificación y unos preparativos minuciosos y con la participación de distintos departamentos.

An effective BCDR plan is comprised of a set of steps that should be taken to ensure that the organization’s operations aren’t interrupted and that it’s IT systems and applications are fully functional. While the specific steps and overarching strategy of an organization’s BCDR plan can vary based on industry and IT infrastructure, there are some fundamental components of every successful BCDR plan. These include, but are not limited to:

• • Identificar y priorizar los activos esenciales para la misión

• • Protecting the organization’s data storage, servers, and networks

• • Realización de evaluaciones de gestión de riesgos

• • Establecimiento de políticas y estrategias generales para hacer frente a los riesgos

• • Realizar operaciones sistemáticas de copia de seguridad y replicación de datos en un almacenamiento seguro

• • Desarrollar e institucionalizar un proceso completo de Recovery de sistemas de información

• • Validar y probar todos los procedimientos y procesos del plan

• • Incorporar cualquier nueva tecnología al plan

¿Por qué es importante el BCDR?

Implementing and operating a comprehensive and effective Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre (BCDR) plan is tremendously important for an organization’s health and profitability. Without a stress-tested BCDR plan, an organization could suffer a catastrophic disruption to its business functionality in the event of a disaster. If an organization’s operations grind to a halt, then its customers potentially won’t be able to receive the organization’s products or services in a timely manner. Thus, resulting in customer dissatisfaction or even potential physical harm. Long-lasting business disruptions can result in forfeited market share and loss of investor confidence. If a data breach occurs, an organization could suffer immense harm to its public reputation and be subjected to hefty regulatory fines.

Ventajas de la BCDR

Un plan de BCDR debe permitir a una organización responder rápidamente ante una interrupción. El desarrollo de estrategias de BCDR que minimicen los efectos de los ciberataques y las interrupciones del servicio contribuirá, a su vez, a mejorar la eficacia operativa general y a reducir los riesgos derivados tanto de amenazas internas como externas. Mediante la elaboración y la revisión continua de su plan de BCDR, una organización puede mejorar su nivel de seguridad, reducir el riesgo de pérdida de datos, evitar daños a su reputación y salvaguardar la confianza de clientes y empleados.

La protección de datos y su papel en la BCDR

While having a Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre (BCDR) plan should be ubiquitous throughout all organizations, regardless of size and industry, Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) plays a vital role in an organization ability to deliver upon BCDR goals. Here’s how:

• • Protecting data sprawl in hybrid environments – Organizations operating with hybrid cloud environments will typically generate a lot of data and have a broad surface area to protect. This could potential open themselves up to a spectrum of failure points and attack vectors. Therefore, whether migrating workloads to the cloud, or repatriating applications back on-premise, managing hybrid cloud environments be complex and ever-changing.  Solid DPaaS offerings enable businesses to protect data where it lives today (and tomorrow) without regularly adjusting their BCDR plans to manage new risks or environments across their growing data estate.

• • Safeguarding mission-critical workloads – No two applications are created equal. The importance of particular workloads and technology processes may ebb and flow depending on current infrastructure, their role they play within the business, or what data the house. With Protección de datos sólidaLas organizaciones que ofrecen servicios «como servicio» pueden dar prioridad a la protección de estas aplicaciones, ofreciendo una estrategia adaptada al riesgo, eficaz y práctica que refuerza en primer lugar los activos más críticos.

• • Fulfilling the SaaS shared responsibility – In the shared responsibility model for SaaS applications, the organization using the application is responsible for data protection and backups, not the application provider. With DPaaS, when an organization procures and implements a new SaaS application, they can rapidly incorporate these apps under existing BCDR plans without a lift.

• • Layered ransomware response – Cyberthreats are evolving and becoming more sophisticated. But what hasn’t changed, their motives: getting to and exploiting business data. By incorporating DPaaS as a primary element of Business Continuity Recuperación en caso de desastre (BCDR) strategies, you can standardize compliance SLAs and achieve rapid recoverability from these threats. Best-in-class DPaaS also offer robust threat insights to monitor suspicious activity and proactively flag risks and kickstart recovery to minimize business impact.

¿Ofrece Commvault BCDR?

Yes, our Data Protection as a Service platform can be an bedrock component of an organization’s BCDR plan. Commvault DPaaS offers flexibility, breadth of coverage, ultimate security, and bottom-line savings to ensure that an organization’s data is protected (and recoverable) today and in the future. We offer protección de datos potente, de nivel empresarial y basada en la nube with air-gapped protection against cyberattacks with Air Gap Protect, and provides early warning ransomware detection with its cyber deception solution, Threatwise®. Commvault DPaaS portfolio safeguards an organization’s data and enables effective BCDR plans.