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No, it needn't be difficult. Much of a DRP initiative is common sense. The rest is greatly simplified through simple to use proven tools and templates.   This Disaster Planning Template was use by consultants who created the Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Resumption plan that Merrill Lynch used after 9/11.  It is a proven process and set of tools.

This site is designed to catalog the easiest yet most effective approaches and products... to make disaster recovery planning less of a trauma and more of a business process.

The creation of the plan itself is the first port of call, but we also examine contingency audit and risk analysis from a simplification perspective.

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Risk analysis is inextricably linked with disaster recovery. Assessment of the risks which may lead to disaster is essential in the determination of what controls are appropriate to the situation. Again, however, risk analysis is often made more difficult than necessary.

Do you really need a complicated piece of software to create your plan? Do you need 20 years experience in business continuity planning? Do you need to divert untold resources into the plan creation exercise? Certainly, if you employ the Disaster Recovery Planning Template the answer is... NO!

 


How do you ensure that your disaster recovery plan meets your actual needs? How do you know that it will all work? Do you audit it, and if so, how?

Equally fundamentally, do you know what your resource/service dependencies are and what their time criticalities are? What of your actual everyday contingency practices - do they measure up?

To determine and ensure all of this with minimum fuss, a comprehensive but extremely simple to use product is now available.... the Disaster Recovery Toolkit - Business and IT Impact Analysis.

 

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Risk analysis is inextricably linked with disaster recovery. assessment of the risks which may lead to disaster is essential in the determination of what controls are appropriate to the situation. Again, however, risk analysis is often made more difficult than necessary.

The Threat & Vulnerability Assessment Tool Kit and tool was designed to simplify matters, and to make risk analysis more widely accessible through automation. It is now probably the most widely used product and method in the world

 

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Core backup and recovery concerns

Backup PolicyCIOs and IT Managers need to consider manadated compliance requirements

  • Question that need to be answered are:
  • Is our data safe in transit and at rest?
  • What prevents hackers from gaining access to our data?
  • Is our data properly handled, stored, and deleted?
  • Who can access our data?
  • What are the benchmark measurements?
  • Is our data backup strategy compliant?
  • Will our recovery be successful?
 
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How long should it take to create a business continuity plan?

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Business continuity planning is a continual process, and not something that is done once and filed away to be used in an emergency. In error many organisations treat the creation of a business continuity plan as a normal project, subsequently deploying the plan and handing over to an operational department for maintenance.

In most organizations, DR is the quintessential complex, unfamiliar task. Disasters happen so rarely that recovery operations are the opposite of routine. What's more the myriad, interconnected data, application and other resources that must be recovered after a disaster make recovery an exceptionally difficult and error-prone effort.

How to create a business continuity plan...

 
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Which states had the fewest major weather disasters

The U.S. has sustained 112 weather/climate disasters over the past quarter century in which overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The total standardized losses for the 112 events exceed $750 billion, according to The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Climatic Data Center.

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Foundation necessary for disaster recovery and business continuity

As an essential foundation step toward disaster recovery and business continuity readiness, are these best practices:

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  • Extending management technologies that automate the process of asset management, system configuration, and software distribution (This reduced the number of steps that required hands-on intervention and reduced IT staff time.)
  • Constraining their environment to a finite number of standard processors, operating systems, database products - making it easier to maintain and update
  • Consolidating servers over a long-term road map, reducing the number of server "footprints" that had to be maintained and updated
  • Standardizing IT practices, especially management of settings and configurations
  • Providing protected storage space within the organization's storage resources and establishing rules for backup of mission-critical data (This ensured adequate capacity for backup and recovery procedures and for restart of applications.)
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Information security incident management - 27035:2011

ISO has announced the official launch of the new International Standard entitled 'Information technology – Security techniques – Information security incident management', the standard gives ‘how to’ guidance on detecting, reporting and assessing information security incidents and vulnerabilities.

Information technology – Security techniques – Information security incident managementISO says that ISO/IEC 27035:2011 will help organizations respond to information security incidents, including the activation of appropriate controls for the prevention and reduction of, and recovery from, impacts, and, in so doing, learn and improve their overall approach.

Edward Humphreys, whose team developed the original version of the standard, ISO/IEC TR 18044:2004, commented: “Effective and timely handling of major incidents can make the difference between the survival or death of an organization. The new ISO/IEC 27035 standard provides tried and tested advice on the processes and methods that need to be deployed for ensuring effective management of information security incidents.

Incidents can vary from the minor, which may have an impact on an isolated business system to a major incident, which affects all business systems. Some incidents have the effect of disrupting an organization and the use of its business resources for 24-72 hours or more; some cause a serious loss and/or destruction of data and some can leave the organization with a serious crime on their hands. ISO/IEC 27035:2011 offers a solution.

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ISO/IEC 27035:2011, which replaces technical report ISO/IEC TR 18044:2004, supports the general concepts specified in ISO/IEC 27001:2005.

The new standard is applicable to any organization, irrespective of size. It covers a range of information security incidents, whether deliberate or accidental, and whether caused by technical or physical means.

 
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