Business Continuity Guideline: A Practical Approach for Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery
The BC Guideline is a tool to allow organizations to consider the factors and steps necessary to prepare for a crisis (disaster or emergency) so that it can manage and survive the crisis and take all appropriate actions to help ensure the organization's continued viability. The advisory portion of the guideline is divided into two parts: (1) the planning process and (2) successful implementation and maintenance. Part One provides step-bystep Business Continuity Plan preparation and activation guidance, including readiness, prevention, response, and recovery/resumption. Part Two details those tasks required for the Business Continuity Plan to be maintained as a living document, changing and growing with the organization and remaining relevant and executable.
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Disaster Recovery Planning: Define what types of disasters need to be planned for
This white paper describes, at a high level, some of the many areas to address during the creation of a Disaster Recovery Plan. It is not all-inclusive, but is intended to provide insight into the overall process.
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Business Continuity Planning: More than just Application Systems
While there are steps that can be taken to avoid or mitigate certain problems it is not always possible to avoid a disaster. Through diligent planning and preparation it is possible to minimize the negative impact of such as disaster from a business perspective. If your company relies on its IT systems to stay in business, then this white paper and the rest of the series on Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning is a must read for you!
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The Legal Issues of Disaster Recovery Planning
The legal issues involved in corporate contingency planning are some of the most misunderstood and confusing aspects of the entire process of creating a disaster recovery plan. Disaster recovery planners are not expected to be lawyers; however, they are encumbered with the responsibility of understanding the minutiae and vagueness of existing regulatory guidelines and the legal consequences of their company's failure to implement an effective disaster recovery plan.
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Specific Information and Issues to Recovery of an Ingres Installation
Disaster recovery planning can mean different things to different people. To many organizations, it is as simple as having offsite backups available. To other organizations it involves having warm sites for machine restoration and infrastructure, and even workspace for business continuity. In order to keep this article brief and focused on Ingres, we will primarily review information and issues specific to the recovery of an Ingres installation on an alternate machine.
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Disaster Notification: The Missing Link
One of the basic tenets of DR/BC planning is making the assumption that your facilities and everything in them will be completely inaccessible. You won't be able to go back to your office to get something. You won't be able to access the corporate systems from your VPN at home. Everything is gone - literally or figuratively. The truth is that most companies plan for disaster knowing that the odds are in their favor, that a major disaster will never occur. But what happens when they are wrong?
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Disaster Recovery Issues & Answers
With the Internet a "Hackers Paradise", Service Providers failing, and bandwidth shortages increasing, the Internet is wrought with perils. DRP's need to be intimate with Internet technology and software in order to effectively design risk management and recovery strategies.
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Data Disaster Recovery for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
Businesses of all sizes have become increasingly dependent on data for the very existence of the company. Whether it is a large financial institution with transactional data or a 15-person law office with valuable client records, business assets are increasingly represented in the form of the data we maintain.
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Introduction to Disaster Recovery Planning
Almost all organizations - whether commercial or governmental - rely on some form of technology to manage the various parts of their operations. A disruption to the availability of any of these resources, if even for a few hours, can have serious consequences for their ability to function at normal capacity. For organizations that provide mission critical services such as power plants, telecommunications facilities, and national defense agencies, disruptions must be kept to a minimum or, if possible, avoided altogether. How an organization responds to threats during and after a crisis will determine whether they emerge on the other side intact or cause them to cease operations entirely. This is where disaster recovery planning comes into play.
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Cisco - Disaster Recovery: Best Practices
This best−practice document outlines the steps you need to take to implement a successful disaster recovery plan. We'll look at the following critical steps for best−practice disaster recovery: Management Awareness, Disaster Recovery Planning, Resiliency and Backup Services, and Vendor Support Services.
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