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Prevented Risks and Disaster Recovery
Prepare and Plan for any risk or disaster incidents
The management of the organisation have a responsibility to recover from such incidents in the minimum amount of time, with minimum disruption and at minimum cost. This requires careful preparation and planning.
Every business and organisation can experience a serious incident that can prevent it from continuing normal business operations. This can range from a flood or fire to a serious computer malfunction or Security breach.
If your Risk Management or Disaster Recovery is not planned - you can loose your job!
By outlining the most common steps in contingency planning and disaster recovery, as well as identifying popular tools and solutions, organisations are able to reduce risk significantly.
It is vital that an organisation takes the development and maintenance of the disaster recovery or business continuity plan seriously. It is not one of those tasks that can be left until everyone has time to deal with it. A serious incident can affect the organisation at any time and this includes the today, not just tomorrow! Someone will be held responsible for any disasters and the blame might land on your desk!!
Responsibilities are held at the top of the enterprise - but critical business functions need planning
In today's modern world - we are dependant on our IT systems - and if we cannot access critical data or our IT processes fails - the enterprice can loose important revenue. The contingency plan needs to be developed by a team representing all functional areas of the organisation. If the organisation is large enough, a formal project plan needs to be established, which must have approval and support from the very top of the enterprise. Most organisations are depending on Technology to perform their business processes - hence it is crucial to maintain and sustain a healthy IT enviroment.
To do this we must be prepared to achieve minimum disruption and at a minimum cost!
Determination of which critical business functions need to be resumed and in what order is vital. The IT recovery plan will of necessity be detailed, and will identify key individuals who should be familiar with their duties under the plan.
The recovery plan must be tested by those persons who would undertake those activities if the situation being tested occurred in reality. The test procedures should be documented and the results recorded. This is important to ensure that feedback is obtained for fine tuning the Plan.
The disaster plan must always be kept up to date and applicable to current business circumstances. This means that any changes to the business process or changes to the relative importance of each part of the business process must be properly reflected within the plan.Someone must be assigned responsibility for ensuring that the plan is maintained and updated regularly and should therefore ensure that information concerning changes to the business process are properly communicated.
Any changes or amendments made to the plan must be fully tested. IT Personnel should also be kept up to date of such changes in so far as they affect their duties and responsibilities
DSP Global- Back up and Recovery Healthcheck
"You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward" - James Thurb
Would you be able to quickly and easily restore a fully working system in the event of a hardware or database failure? If you're not sure, then you need one of our Backup and Recovery Heathchecks
Due to lack of or a transient technical resource, a site might often leave backup and recovery to chance or just assume that it is being dealt with. We have seen the very serious consequences of this hit and miss approach and it is critical to review backup and recovery procedures as well as broader disaster recovery aspects. Doing this now will save you time, effort and expense should a disaster happen.
The Backup and Recovery Healthcheck will:
For further information please contact DSP to discuss whether you are prepared for your business disaster recovery
DSP Supports Oracle & Microsoft using GroundWork
The management of the organisation have a responsibility to recover from such incidents in the minimum amount of time, with minimum disruption and at minimum cost. This requires careful preparation and planning.
Every business and organisation can experience a serious incident that can prevent it from continuing normal business operations. This can range from a flood or fire to a serious computer malfunction or Security breach.
If your Risk Management or Disaster Recovery is not planned - you can loose your job!
By outlining the most common steps in contingency planning and disaster recovery, as well as identifying popular tools and solutions, organisations are able to reduce risk significantly.
It is vital that an organisation takes the development and maintenance of the disaster recovery or business continuity plan seriously. It is not one of those tasks that can be left until everyone has time to deal with it. A serious incident can affect the organisation at any time and this includes the today, not just tomorrow! Someone will be held responsible for any disasters and the blame might land on your desk!!
Responsibilities are held at the top of the enterprise - but critical business functions need planning
In today's modern world - we are dependant on our IT systems - and if we cannot access critical data or our IT processes fails - the enterprice can loose important revenue. The contingency plan needs to be developed by a team representing all functional areas of the organisation. If the organisation is large enough, a formal project plan needs to be established, which must have approval and support from the very top of the enterprise. Most organisations are depending on Technology to perform their business processes - hence it is crucial to maintain and sustain a healthy IT enviroment.
To do this we must be prepared to achieve minimum disruption and at a minimum cost!
Determination of which critical business functions need to be resumed and in what order is vital. The IT recovery plan will of necessity be detailed, and will identify key individuals who should be familiar with their duties under the plan.
The recovery plan must be tested by those persons who would undertake those activities if the situation being tested occurred in reality. The test procedures should be documented and the results recorded. This is important to ensure that feedback is obtained for fine tuning the Plan.
The disaster plan must always be kept up to date and applicable to current business circumstances. This means that any changes to the business process or changes to the relative importance of each part of the business process must be properly reflected within the plan.Someone must be assigned responsibility for ensuring that the plan is maintained and updated regularly and should therefore ensure that information concerning changes to the business process are properly communicated.
Any changes or amendments made to the plan must be fully tested. IT Personnel should also be kept up to date of such changes in so far as they affect their duties and responsibilities
DSP Global- Back up and Recovery Healthcheck
"You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward" - James Thurb
Would you be able to quickly and easily restore a fully working system in the event of a hardware or database failure? If you're not sure, then you need one of our Backup and Recovery Heathchecks
Due to lack of or a transient technical resource, a site might often leave backup and recovery to chance or just assume that it is being dealt with. We have seen the very serious consequences of this hit and miss approach and it is critical to review backup and recovery procedures as well as broader disaster recovery aspects. Doing this now will save you time, effort and expense should a disaster happen.
The Backup and Recovery Healthcheck will:
- Qualify your contingency needs and expectations
- Assess each server and application to give it our own disaster recovery rating. This rates each system on its importance to you in terms of downtime, data input loss and recovery time and enables us to match it to a 'best practice backup and recovery' strategy
- Evaluate database and server script and procedures
- Recommend changes and new procedures and implement if required - Execute test recovery with accurate timings and verification of data recovery
For further information please contact DSP to discuss whether you are prepared for your business disaster recovery
DSP Supports Oracle & Microsoft using GroundWork
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