The Laptop Security Blog over at www.absolute.com has an interesting post about how the Auditor General of Canada says government agencies aren’t upholding the Government Security Policy (GSP).
In particular, the Auditor General said that the security policy doesn’t include a disaster recovery plan.
Even if you work in a company you can expect that auditors are going to look for a disaster recovery policy and disaster recovery plan in your corporate security policy.
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