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What are Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events—whether those event might include a hurricane or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot.

The CIO's involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency.

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are now accepted as basics requirement for every business and organization. It is widely accepted that a detailed business continuity / disaster recovery plan should not only exist, but should be up to date. It should reflect the actual on-going needs of the business activity or function. But how do you ensure that this is actually the case?

If you have a plan, do you know that it will all work? Do you ever audit it, and if so, how? Equally importantly, do you know what your service/resource dependencies are and what their time criticalities are? What of your everyday contingency practices - do they measure up to close scrutiny?

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Industry Standard

Essential Tool for Organizational Resilience and Survival. It is the ideal for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity practitioners seeking a…
  • State of the art presentation of the global body of knowledge for DR/BC, including current international standards and best practices.
  • Flexible, modular design that allows you to create a customized disaster recovery and business continuity plan: Provides real world text with clear definition of fundamental principles and practices; Detail on Information Technology and Emergency Management for those focusing in these areas; a 20 page Business and IT Impact Questionnaire; and a detail work plan.business impact, and Recovery Management, which tends to be task oriented. Both the Disaster Recovery Planning Organization and the IT Productivity Center (ITPC) have endorsed the book.
  • Quick reference for your DR/BC team offering a readable blend of academic principles and practical applications—an effective tool for grounding interdepartmental teams developing and maintaining DR/BC plans.

Disaster Plan Necessary For Business Continuity Plan

Disaster Recovery Plans are part of a larger, more extensive planning process known as Business Continuity Planning. Disaster Recovery plans should be tested frequently so that the as many individuals as possible are familiar with the specific actions they will need to take when a disaster occurs.

Disaster Recovery plans must also be adaptable and updated frequently, e.g. if new people, a new branch office, or new hardware or software are added to an organization they should promptly be incorporated into the organization's disaster recovery plan. Enterprises must consider all these facets of their organization as well as update and practice their plan if they want to maximize their recovery after a disaster.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning are the process an organization uses to recover access to their enterprise operations; software, data, and/or hardware that are needed to resume the performance of normal, critical business functions after the event of either a natural disaster or a disaster caused by humans.

While Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans (DRP & BCP) often focus on bridging the gap where data, software, or hardware have been damaged or lost, one cannot forget the vital element of work force that composes much of any organization.

A building fire might predominantly affect vital data storage; whereas a pandemic or epidemic illness is more likely to have an effect on staffing. Both types of disaster need to be considered when creating a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.

Thus, enterprises should include in their DRPs & BCPs contingencies for how they will cope with the sudden and/or unexpected loss of key personnel as well as how to recover their data.

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Disaster Recovery Business ContinuityDisaster Recovery Business Continuity Standard Edition

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template (WORD)
    • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Audit Program - Compliant with ISO 27031 and ISO 22301
    • Disaster Recovery Manager Job Description
    • Manager Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Job Description
    • Application Inventory and Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire
    • Incident Communication Plan and Policy with BEST PRACTICES for
      • News Conferences
      • Media Relations
    • Social Network Checklist
    • Included with the template are Electronic Forms which have been designed to lower the cost of maintenance of the plan. Electonic Forms that can be emailed, completed via a computer or tablet, and stored electronically including:
      • LAN Inventory
      • Location Contact Numbers
      • Off-Site Inventory
      • Personnel Locations
      • Plan Distribution
      • Remote Location Contact Information
      • Team Call List
      • Vendor Contact Information

Disaster Recovery Business ContinuityDisaster Recovery Business Continuity Premium Edition

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template (WORD)

  • 15 Full Job Descriptions (WORD)
    • Chief Information Officer
    • Chief Security Officer
    • Chief Compliance Officer
    • VP Strategy and Architecture
    • Director Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
    • Director e-Commerce
    • Director Media Communications
    • Manager Disaster Recovery
    • Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
    • Disaster Recovery Coordinator
    • Disaster Recovery - Special Projects Supervisor
    • Manager Database
    • Capacity Planning Supervisor
    • Manager Media Library Suppor
    • Manager Site Management
    • Pandemic Coordinator

Disaster Recovery Business ContinuityDisaster Recovery Business Continuity Gold Edition

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template (WORD)

  • 243 IT Job Descriptions (WORD) including all of the job descriptions contained in the Premium edition

DR BC SecurityDisaster Reovery Business Continuity & Security Manual Templates Standard Edition Includes

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template in MS WORD format
  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Audit Program
  • Security Manual Template in MS WORD format
  • Business and IT Impact Questiononaire - 21 pages
  • Threat and Vulnerability Assessment Form

DR BC SecurityDisaster Recovery Business Continuity & Security Manual Templates Premium

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template (WORD)

  • Security Manual Template (Word)

  • 25 Full Job Descriptions
    • Chief Information Officer (CIO); Chief Compliance Officer (CCO); Chief Security Officer (CSO);VP Strategy and Architecture; Director e-Commerce; Database Administrator; Data Security Administrator; Manager Data Security; Manager Database; Manager Disaster Recovery; Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; Pandemic Coordinator; Manager Facilities and Equipment; Manager Media Library Support; Manager Network and Computing Services; Manager Network Services; Manager Site Management; Manager Training and Documentation; Manager Voice and Data Communication; Manager Wireless Systems;Capacity Planning Supervisor; Disaster Recovery Coordinator; Disaster Recovery - Special Projects Supervisor; Network Security Analyst; System Administrator - Unix; System Administrator - Windows

DR BC SecurityDisaster Recovery Business Continuity & Security Manual Templates Gold Edition

  • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template (WORD)
    • Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Audit Program - Compliant with ISO 27031 and ISO 22301
    • Disaster Recovery Manager Job Description
    • Manager Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Job Description
    • Application Inventory and Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire
    • Incident Communication Plan and Policy with BEST PRACTICES for
      • News Conferences
      • Media Relations
    • Social Network Checklist
    • Included with the template are Electronic Forms which have been designed to lower the cost of maintenance of the plan. Electonic Forms that can be emailed, completed via a computer or tablet, and stored electronically including:
      • LAN Inventory
      • Location Contact Numbers
      • Off-Site Inventory
      • Personnel Locations
      • Plan Distribution
      • Remote Location Contact Information
      • Team Call List
      • Vendor Contact Information
  • Security Manual Template (Word)
    • HIPAA Audit Program
    • ISO 2700 Security Audit
    • Business and IT Impact Questionnaire
    • Threat and Vulnerability Assessment Tool
    • Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Checklist
    • Electronic forms that can be Emailed, completed via a computer or tablet, and stored electronically including:

      • Blog Policy Compliance
      • Company Asset Employee Control Log
      • Email - Employee Acknowledgment
      • Employee Termination Checklist
      • Internet Access Request
      • Internet Use Approval
      • Internet & Electronic Communication - Employee Acknowledgment
      • Mobile Device Access and Use Agreement
      • Employee Security Acknowledgement Release
      • Preliminary Security Audit Checklist
      • Security Access Application
      • Security Audit Report
      • Security Violation Reporting
      • Sensitive Information Policy Compliance Agreement
  • 243 Full Job Descriptions which includes all of the job descriptions in the premium edition
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