The Role the NIST Framework Should Play in Creating a Cyber Secure DR Infrastructure

Any organization irrespective of its size must acknowledge the reality of cybersecurity threats. Further, no organization can or should assume it can completely secure its production environment against a cybersecurity attack. This puts the onus on organizations to create a cyber secure disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure so they can respond. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity can help organizations achieve this objective. It provides high-level guidance on how organizations may create such a cyber-secure DR infrastructure. However, organizations still must identify and map products and product features to this NIST Framework to…