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Date Submitted: 04/27/2014 10:13 AM
1. Disaster Recovery Planning - The process of assessing risks that an organization faces - Developing, documenting, implementing, testing, and maintaining procedures - Minimize losses after a disaster Disaster Recovering Planning Process - Too many people consider disaster recovery planning a mechanical process - There are certainly tedious and laborious aspects to developing a plan - Organizations have cultures, spirits, and images that permeate relationships with
• The organization
• Customers
• Business partners
• The public at large
A contingency plan is:
“A plan for emergency response, backup operations, and post-disaster recovery maintained by an activity as a part of its security program that will ensure the availability of critical resources and facilitate the continuity of operations in an emergency situation…”
It is better to plan activities ahead of time rather than to react when the time comes
“Proactive” rather than “Reactive”
Take the correct actions when needed
Allow for experienced personnel to be absent
2. Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Significant negative events, in this context, can include anything that puts an organization’s operations at risk: crippling cyber attacks and equipment failures, for example, as well as hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
3. The goal is to assist the organization/business to continue functioning even though normal operations are disrupted
Includes steps to take
Before a disruption
During a disruption
After a disruption
4. Because there for The planning team must consider input from all departments, Disputes among departmental representatives about disaster recovery priorities may not be difficult to resolve, and Departmental representatives should be given sufficient time to take the list back to their departments and rank all the processes and facilities...