The most common disasters that can impact critical infrastructure include the following:
- Natural disasters—Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, floods, and wildfires are some of the types of disasters that nature can produce. These unpredictable events can be catastrophic. A solid business continuity and disaster recovery plan are essential to avoid a complete collapse of the business.
- Cyberattacks—Humans can cause disasters. Data can be stolen, corrupted, or deleted. Identifying cyberattacks, knowing how they can affect business, and knowing how to recover from such attacks is crucial to the return of operations.
- Hardware failures—Many scenarios involving hardware failures are dealt with by having a dependable high availability plan in place. Redundancy in the system can help avoid data loss and unexpected downtime. These scenarios can be disastrous in the absence of proper planning.