Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010: Best Practices

Risk Mitigation

Achieving high availability requires that risks are identified and addressed. Many organizations employ risk management practices to capture and address potential disruptions to business processes. These practices usually consist of the following phases:

• Identification This phase includes the documentation of areas of risk within the business. These range from loss of a large customer and the associated revenue all the way to a disaster that destroys a company datacenter.

• Assessment This phase includes the analysis of the identified risks to determine the probability and the impact of each.

• Mitigation This phase includes creating a plan for mitigating each potential risk. The mitigation plans for each risk fall into the following ...