Micro Focus
Created by: Micro Focus
Pages: 36
When disaster strikes, businesses face significant challenges. One key aim of business planning is to minimize the impact on product and service delivery when such disruptions occur. Ensuring business continuity is paramount in these circ*mstances. An IT disaster recovery plan serves as a cornerstone of the broader business continuity strategy. The ultimate goal of business continuity is to maintain a baseline level of service while working towards restoring normal operations. Failure to implement a disaster recovery plan puts the company at risk of losing customers to competitors, jeopardizing funding, and potentially having the necessity of its products or services questioned and deemed unnecessary.
Main sections:
- Objectives –
The primary goal of the disaster recovery program is to create, validate, and document a meticulously designed and readily comprehensible plan. This plan aims to assist the company in swiftly and efficiently recovering from unexpected disasters or emergencies that disrupt information systems and business operations.
- Key Personnel Contact Info –
Templates for key organizational contacts and information, key external contacts and information, as well as corresponding notification calling trees.
- Plan Overview –
Covers plan updating, plan documentation storage, backup strategy, and risk management.
- Emergency –
Covers alert, escalation and plan invocation, plan triggering events, assembly points, activation of emergency response team, disaster recovery team, emergency alert, escalation, and DRP activation, emergency alert, DR procedures for management, contact with employees, backup staff, recorded messages/updates, alternate recovery facilities/hot site, personnel and family notification,
- Media –
Covers media contact, media strategies, list of media team, and rules for dealing with media.
- Insurance –
As components of the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, several insurance policies will have been implemented. These often encompass errors and omissions insurance, directors & officers liability insurance, general liability insurance, and business interruption insurance. This will be a list of insurance policies, coverage, contact details, etc.
- Financial and Legal Issues –
Covers financial assessment, financial requirements, legal actions, and DRP exercising.
- Technology Disaster Recovery Plan –
As components of the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, several insurance policies have been implemented. These encompass errors and omissions insurance, directors & officers liability insurance, general liability insurance, and business interruption insurance.
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