CISSP Crash Course - Resource Protection

The video tutorial discusses resource protection, focusing on various media types such as compact discs, USBs, hard drives, and mobile devices. It emphasizes the importance of storing media in secure, access-controlled, and temperature-controlled environments to prevent data loss, theft, or corruption. The tutorial highlights the need for environmental controls to extend media lifespan and suggests security measures like encryption and access restrictions. It covers backup strategies, particularly for tape media, and stresses the importance of managing the media lifecycle to prevent operational issues. The tutorial concludes with a reminder to securely destroy media that begins to fail.

What is a key environmental factor to consider when storing media for long-term use?

• Temperature control

• Proximity to a window

• Color of the storage room

• Size of the storage room

Why should organizations keep two copies of backups?

• To save on storage costs

• To make data retrieval faster

• To comply with government regulations

• To ensure data is available in case one copy is lost

What is a recommended practice for handling tape media?

• Use damaged tapes to save costs

• Expose tapes to sunlight regularly

• Keep tapes sealed until use

• Store tapes in a humid environment

What is the significance of understanding the meantime to failure (MTTF) for media?

• To determine the color of the media

• To predict when the media will become obsolete

• To decide the price of the media

• To estimate how long the media can be used before it fails

What should be done when a media begins to generate errors?

• Continue using it until it completely fails

• Sell it to another organization

• Remove it from operation and securely destroy it

• Ignore the errors and keep it in storage