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Steps to a sound Business continuity plan / Disaster Recovery Plan
1) The three P’s People,
Policies and Procedures are the first step towards creating
and implementing a sound Disaster Recovery plan.
Identify:
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The
designated “Data Protection Manager”;
this person should be responsible for identifying
critical information to the business, documenting
the processes, structuring and understanding the backup
policies with your IT Support Provider, directing
the testing and training by liaising with your IT
Support Provider. |
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Relevant
regulations that affect company’s data protection
priorities. |
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Define
the critical applications and prioritise on those
applications that can cause maximum financial impact
in case of data unavailability. |
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Offsite data storage and its benefits |
Understand:
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Backup
procedures and policies |
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Calculate
the Downtime costs and financial impacts on your business |
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Alternatives
and options available to mitigate risk |
Monitor
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Ensuring
procedures are implemented. |
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Ask
for Backup policy documentation and verify data backup
is taken from time to time from your IT Support Provider. |
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Test your Backup policies and procedures to make sure
restoring works in different situations. |
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| Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. |
| - Bill Gates |
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