Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Failover, Simulation, Parallel Processing, and Capacity Planning (3.4)

This episode explains the relationship between disaster recovery and business continuity. Disaster recovery focuses on restoring technology and data after disruption, while business continuity focuses on keeping essential business functions operating during and after an incident. Students should understand failover testing, simulations, tabletop exercises, parallel processing, and capacity planning as methods for validating whether plans can actually work under pressure. Failover must be tested so teams know whether services can move to alternate systems, and capacity planning ensures recovery environments can support required demand. For Security+ scenarios, the correct answer often depends on recovery objectives, critical business processes, available resources, and evidence that readiness has been tested. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with. And dont forget Cyberauthor.me for the companion study guide and flash cards!