Your organization uses a 'Warm Site' for its disaster recovery strategy. During a recent audit, you find that the site lacks the necessary bandwidth to support peak production traffic. What is the most appropriate management response?
Trap 1: Cancel the warm site contract and build a cold site.
This reduces capability further, which does not solve the underlying capacity issue.
Trap 2: Require all employees to work from home during a disaster to save…
This is an unrealistic operational assumption that does not address the site's network capacity.
Trap 3: Accept the risk formally via the Risk Register without further…
Capacity issues are technical risks that should be mitigated or managed, not simply accepted.
- A
Cancel the warm site contract and build a cold site.
Why wrong: This reduces capability further, which does not solve the underlying capacity issue.
- B
Require all employees to work from home during a disaster to save bandwidth.
Why wrong: This is an unrealistic operational assumption that does not address the site's network capacity.
- C
Accept the risk formally via the Risk Register without further mitigation.
Why wrong: Capacity issues are technical risks that should be mitigated or managed, not simply accepted.
- D
Update the DRP to include a 'throttling' policy for non-critical services during failover.
Managing capacity through service degradation is a legitimate risk mitigation strategy when infrastructure is limited.