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Resilient design

Resilient design

From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 3 Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security

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Resilient design

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- [Narrator] Business continuity professionals have a variety of tools at their disposal to help remediate potential availability issues. One of the critical ways that IT professionals protect the availability of systems is ensuring that they're redundant. That simply means that they're designed in a way that a failure of a single component doesn't bring the entire system down. Business can continue in the face of a single predictable failure. The single point of failure analysis process provides security professionals with a mechanism to identify and remove single points of failure from their systems. Let's look at an example. Here we have a simple web-based application. A web server protected by a firewall and connected to the internet. As we conduct a single point of failure analysis, we might first notice that the web server itself is a single point of failure. If anything goes wrong with that server the web service…

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