Contingency Planning Layers

In an organization like International Produce, which was the focus of the unit assignment, having an incident involving highly valuable corporate data for which the organization was completely unprepared to handle is generally the catalyst to making incident response and contingency planning rise to the top of the list of things to do. The complexity of the organization and the large number of locations and stakeholders make enterprise-level planning difficult to tackle.

Use the study materials and any research needed to fill in knowledge gaps and discuss the following topics:

• What roles should be included in a project team to look at the development of enterprise-level incident response and contingency planning procedures?
• How does the IT team integrate IT-specific planning with the overall enterprise effort?
• From an information security perspective, what role would information security staff play in ensuring that all of these plans adequately address the security implications?