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Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, it is recommended that you refer to resources from your System Administration and Security course (CYB300) and your Information Technology Strategy and Management course (INT401).

For this interactive assignment, you will take on the role of the IT Security Planner for EZTechMovie.

There is no doubt that data privacy and data protection are ethical issues. Companies owe it to their shareholders and customers to apply state of the art data protection techniques to protect the privacy of their customers and therefore be socially responsible and ethical. In addition, many organizations must employ a proper data protection plan in order to comply with government regulations.

These protections become all the more important given the big data jobs that so many companies work with, and the possibility of a large-scale natural or data-driven disaster. Big data jobs, similar to what EZTechMovie deals with, are crucial to the operations of many organizations and are necessary to continuous and synchronous (real-time) data environments. Content such as click stream, the sensors for Internet of Things (IoT), and video files, to name a few, are critical to the operations of many enterprises but continuously increases in volume. Thus the legacy disaster recovery approaches used by many companies are no longer appropriate.

Many companies are now replacing their traditional procedures with a new type of big data disaster recovery plan, one that protects this type of data from various system security attacks, system downtimes, and equipment failures. Otherwise, the catastrophic outcomes of such crises could affect the revenue, production, service continuity, customer retention, stock values, and other vital areas.

Your manager has been asking the IT team for ideas about what EZTechMovie should do for disaster recovery and business continuity. You are hoping for a promotion and want to impress your manager. Bearing in mind the key considerations and best practices for a dependable big data disaster recovery plan, create brief initial draft of a plan idea that focuses on reducing negative impacts, and allows timely business continuation.

You know your manager has expressed some specific concerns. In 1 0 0 0 words, formulate your ideas about what your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan might look like, addressing the following considerations expressed by your manager:

• The legacy considerations within the plan
• Any cloud and/or on-premise approaches appropriate for EZTechMovie.
• EZTechMovie is considering the transfer of large portions of its streaming video processes to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and conducting a cloud migration. Your manager is very concerned about how to recover if suddenly all of the EZTechMovie systems in Amazon Web Services were to go down.
• EZTechMovie is considering keeping their backups in Google Cloud Storage. How would your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan protect EZTechMovie in the event of a natural disaster, a system failure, or a security breach?
• Explain how your plan will include the followings:
  • Backups
  • Replication
  • Mirroring (Scheduled, Incremental, etc.)

Attach your Ideas for a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan to your initial post. In your post, commit to paper an email to your manager explaining why you are sending this to him or her.