Assessing risks is one of the first steps required in finding a way of reducing them and therefore keeping your infrastructure safe. Creating an effective disaster recovery plan starts with searching for potential threats and vulnerabilities of your infrastructure elements, as well as the ways to respond to them. Risk assessment is not a one-time process. You should regularly update your risk assessment policies, especially if you are running a constantly changing infrastructure. Our article aims to explain the importance of risk impact assessment in disaster recovery planning and provide basic information on how risk assessment is performed.
