Mach 4 Vault - DR Scenario: Dress
Rehearsal
for
guided session during deployment, and should be repeated every 1 to 3
years
Checklist:
- UVNC -reversed outbound from home/random location (optional)
- 7zip -installed, or portable
- URL
- decryption
key
- login
- password
- nav/sel & download
- duplicate locally for safekeeping, BUT do not decrypt
- extract & decrypt archive: dclik open | rclik
extract to
- to target folder
- examine: size, content, date
secure
erase? keep indefinitely? WDE? physical guard?
WHAT FOR?
- last-resort
worst-case scenario
- rebuild from ground up
- LOST: all local backups & home discs, servers,
workstations, storage, building
- OFFSITE: datacenter + officier with instructions + key
- FUNDS: acquire systems (or existing spares) + space (or
@home, invoke HSBS)
OBJECTIVES:
- proven success end-to-end
- confirm possession of address/key
- understand the concept & process
- validates readiness for HSBS
- declare to prospect, client base & regulatory
bodies: due diligence fullfilled
NEXT LEVEL
- tabletop war games (comprehensive scenarios)
- travese hierarchical paths, instead of linear
- RTO/RPT discussion
- HSBS & various level of warm stand-by contingencies
- formal security posture (internal at-a-glace; external
statements)