Disaster Recovery Plan

Associate Level Material

Appendix D

Disaster Recovery Plan

Due in Week Three: For your selected scenario, describe the key elements of the Disaster Recovery Plan to be used in case of a disaster and the plan for testing the DRP.

1 Risk Assessment

1 Critical business processes

List the mission-critical business systems and services that must be protected by the DRP.

The top priority is the virtual private network. This is how both the clients and the companies designers access the same information about the clients requests.

2 Internal, external, and environmental risks

Briefly discuss the internal, external, and environmental risks, which might be likely to affect the business and result in loss of the facility, loss of life, or loss of assets. Threats could include weather, fire or chemical, earth movement, structural failure, energy, biological, or human.

The bigger risks that we may face include hackers with some kind of malicious intent. This is probably the largest risk we have. Of course there are other risks such as natural disasters like storms, fires, or earthquakes possibly taking down our network and causing us to lose important data.

2 Disaster Recovery Strategy

Of the strategies of shared-site agreements, alternate sites, hot sites, cold sites, and warm sites, identify which of these recovery strategies is most appropriate for your selected scenario and why.

A hot site is best in my opinion. This way we have a complete back up site with all of our tools and data already in place as if nothing were to have happened.

3 Disaster Recovery Test Plan

For each testing method listed, briefly describe each method and your rationale for why it will or will not be included in your DRP test plan.

1 Walk-throughs

This will be included to teach all of our techs and designers exactly what to do in the situation of...