NISCC publishes ‘Good Practice Guide to Telecommunications Resilience’

The UK government’s National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) has published a ‘Good Practice Guide to Telecommunications Resilience’. This document provides a series of recommendations aimed at helping organisations understand why telecommunications resilience is an issue, what level of telecommunications resilience is needed and how it can be delivered.

The key recommendations contained in the guide are that organisations should:

* Identify those communications systems that are deemed mission critical and which carry a high risk to the business if they are disrupted.

* Wherever possible separate out the high risk services from those that only carry a medium or low risk to the business if disrupted.

* Understand the architectural options for separacy and diversity based services
e.g. what does ‘end to end separacy’ actually mean.

* Recognise that high availability and high resilience services will cost more than standard services, and do not use cost as the main criterion when procuring these services.

The document also provides a useful self assessment questionnaire and a list of ‘twenty questions to ask your providers’.

Download the guide

•Date: 21st May 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
Rate this article or make a comment - click here