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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Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
To ensure the successful continuance of the business, corporate information needs to be protected. And just as facilities are protected by dedicated professionals with specialized training, so too should data protection programs be designed and managed by professionals.
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Business Continuity Planning In Difficult Economic Times
Business continuity planning on an enterprise-wide level is an involved and costly process. Certainly, each company would do well to have some kind of comprehensive plan to handle crises. However, in these challenging economic times, many companies are choosing to postpone or eliminate business continuity planning from their budgets, even though they may have no plan at all in place. This being the case, security professionals may want to try a more modular approach to safeguarding the company's assets.
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Business Resumption Planning: A Progressive Approach
The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic roadmap for those endeavoring to implement a Business Resumption Plan (BRP) within their organizations.
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Disaster Recovery Plan Strategies and Processes
This Disaster Recovery Plan is designed to ensure the continuation of vital business processes in the event that a disaster occurs. This plan will provide an effective solution that can be used to recover all vital business processes within the required time frame using vital records that are stored off-site.
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Disaster Recovery Plan Testing: Cycle the Plan, Plan the Cycle
From a management perspective, the primary objective of Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) testing is to evaluate whether or not the DRP is capable of restoring one or more business-critical processes to functionality within a specified period of time. At the end of the day a series of successful tests provides a high level of assurance for the business stakeholders, preferably with minimal associated costs and no disruption of services.
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Disaster Recovery Survivability Security
Since September 11, 2001, Disaster Recovery has become one of the hottest topics in businesses and governments. Disasters as defined in, "So-Called "Small Disasters" Can Equal Big Trouble (Disaster Recovery Journal, Fall 2002, Vol. 15 No. 4)" by Ron Levine [1] are, "natural weather storms, tornados, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and explosions".
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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning
The purpose of this document is to give an overview of what is Business Continuity Planning and provide some guidance and resources for beginner.
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Recovering From Disaster: Implementing Disaster Recovery Plans Following Terrorism
The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of disaster recovery following the biggest disaster in American history. More specifically, three aspects of disaster recovery, which were found to be the most challenging for many of the companies affected by the recent attacks, will be discussed.
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Systems Survivability
The goal of this paper is to introduce the concept of systems survivability, and explore methods in which this broad concept can be utilized. Although much of this paper is based on personal experience in a healthcare setting, the ideas contained herein can easily be applied to any organization. However, due to the nature of this paper, it is not a one-stop solution to any systems problem; rather the intent of this paper is to (hopefully) make the reader think about how this concept can be applied to systems under their control.
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