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Perimeter Defenses: Perimeter defenses such as firewall and VPN management are important
aspects of CFZ disaster recovery plan because they assist in monitoring traffic during a recovery
process and also ensuring a safe connection for users and clients to the alternate network in order
to get the operation back online and reduce downtime (Velliquette, 2005).

Intrusion Prevention and Protection: This is another component that been built into the recovery
plan to ensure that during the recovery process, proper configuration is established to keep virus
definition files current and to ensure new threat and vulnerability are detected and prevented to
improve the fortification process in order to reduce system downtime and return the system back
to normal operations (Velliquette, 2005).
Justification of Disaster Response Protocol
The primary goal of CFZ is to get critical infrastructure, networks and systems back up
and running as quickly as possible in order to minimize the potential long term impact on the
business. Having a crisis management plan is highly important to coordinate the recovery effort
in a systematic way that enables the disaster response team to make quick and effective decisions
that will limit the impact of such disaster or crisis. Not having this type of systematic plan might
cause ineffective decisions to be made and in turn cause an increase in disruption time, which
can be very detrimental not only to the business but also to customers, stakeholders and investors
alike (Velliquette, 2005). The presence of an alternate recovery site, an emergency response
location and backup data are instrumental to the strategic and tactical implementation of the
recovery procedures, without which the recovery process is impossible. Also implementing
perimeter defenses, intrusion prevention system and virus protection during the recovery process
will ensure that new threats that could impede the recovery process do not arise and increase the
magnitude of the already bad situation (Martin, 2005). The survivability of any organization after
a disaster is dependent on the premise of a successful continence planning, which would
determine how effective an organization would responds to mitigate the business impacts of such
disaster (Martin, 2005).
Access Control Protocols

Security challenges faced at CFZ due to data breaches caused the management to
implement network access control protocols that will provide endpoint assessment,
authentication and authorization of entities trying to gain access to their network, while also
limiting the privileges of user assigned roles. First, CFZ decided to implement smart cards for
employees, which digital certificate and underlying password associated with individual users.