AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Tim Rains
At the time of writing, Tim Rains was Amazon Web Services' (AWS's) worldwide public sector security lead working to help public sector organizations improve their security posture. Tim is the author of "Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies."
The Goldilocks zone for disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and disaster preparedness
Disaster recovery is a crucial investment for public sector organizations. However, out-of-date disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP) policies prevent organizations from improving in these essential areas—like the assumption that the more distance between data centers, the better. But is there a point where more distance between data centers has diminishing risk mitigation returns? Enter the Goldilocks zone for disaster recovery, in which the distance between data centers is not too close, not too far, but just right.