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Every business and organization can experience a serious incident
which can prevent it from continuing normal operations. This
can happen any day at any time. The potential causes are many
and varied: flood, explosion, computer malfunction, accident,
grievous act... the list is endless
What would
you do if you and your staff were prevented from reaching
your place of work for the next few days, next few years or
forever? How quickly could you recover? What tools would need
to be in place to help? How much would a robust Disaster Recovery
Plan (DRP) cost?
If a disaster
recovery plan does not already exist, it will be necessary
to initiate the preparation of the first version of such a
plan. In order to initiate a planning project for the first
time, the Board and/or top level management would normally
receive a proposal.
Projects
as important as DRP development should be approved at the
highest level to ensure that the required level of commitment,
resources and management attention are applied to the process.
The proposal
should present the reasons for undertaking the project, and
could include some or all of the following:
- Increased
dependency by the business over recent years on computerised
production and sales delivery mechanisms, thereby creating
increased risk of loss of normal service
- Increased
dependency by the business over recent years on computerised
information systems
- Increased
recognition of the impact that a serious incident could
have on the business
- Need
to establish a formal process to be followed when a disaster
occurs
- An
intention to lower costs or losses arising from serious
incidents
- Increased
likelihood of inadequate IT and information security safeguards
- Need
to develop effective back up and recovery strategies to
mitigate the impact of disruptive events
- Avoidance
of business failure from disruptive incidents.
In
its simplest form DRP would only need to include a Broadband
connection in staff members' homes, a way of connecting them
all together and the history (backup) of the Companies database
and CRM tools
Call Westlake
today to discuss DRP planning and Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs)
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