(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO/IEC 24762:2008—“Information technology—Security techniques—Guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovery services” aims to offer guidance on the information and communications technologies and services necessary for disaster recovery (ICT DR) as part of business continuity management. With this guidance, the standard supports the operation of an information security management system (ISMS) by addressing the information security and availability aspects of business-continuity management in time of crisis.“This next generation standard takes into account today’s technological developments to minimize damage in a crisis situation from an information security and communication standpoint,” says Philip Sy, project editor of ISO/IEC 24762.

The standard provides guidance on:

• Implementing, operating, monitoring, and maintaining the necessary facilities and services necessary for disaster recovery (such as the implementation of a public announcement system to alert personnel to leave a building, or the requirement that all electronic doors can be opened manually from the inside)
• Fallback and recovery support for the organization’s ICT systems

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