A city clerk’s office must keep issuing marriage licenses if the permit software is offline for a week. IT DR restores servers, but leadership asks security to join broader continuity work. What should that participation emphasize?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Servers coming back is DR. Keeping licenses flowing with desks, forms, and workarounds is BC. Security’s seat at that table means the public still gets served while IT digs out.
Full Explanation
Business continuity planning extends beyond IT disaster recovery to sustain critical business functions through alternate facilities, staffing, and manual or paper processes when systems are unavailable. Security professionals contribute by aligning continuity exercises with risk, dependency, and control requirements—not only by restoring compute. Municipal services that face the public often need workspace and procedure workarounds independent of server recovery timelines. Treating BC as “VMs only” leaves operational gaps even when DR succeeds.