Considerations for Your Infrastructure
When assessing architecture and its associated controls, several pivotal factors merit attention. Achieving equilibrium among these factors is essential for creating a secure and future-ready architectural foundation fortified by effective controls. Let’s look at these factors, each in turn:
- Availability: You must ensure that data remains available at all times. This might mean building another datacenter or holding the data in the cloud using geographically dispersed regions. Failure to do so could result in the business suffering downtime or even financial and reputational loss.
- Resilience: Resiliency is measured by the amount of time it takes the organization to recover from a critical failure. A load balancer can make a web server resilient by balancing the load. Automated resiliency (such as obtaining your data from another geographically dispersed region) is immediate. This is the benefit of data storage and backup in...