Disaster recovery

Explained how a business can analyze the return on investment of a disaster recovery plan The organization should do a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) which should calculate what might happen if there was an interruption of a business function and what information is needed to develop a recovery strategy. When doing a risk management test a potential lost scenarios should be identified. There are many types of scenarios to consider doing a disaster, like loss of goods from your suppliers, delay…

strategy. This strategy has the goal to reduce the impact of the vulnerability exploitation by properly plan and prepare for it. As a part of contingency strategy organization has to prepare three types of plans: Incident Response Plan (IRP), Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Incident Response Plan (IRP) consist of actions that takes place while the incident is still in progress. This is the immediate response, and is usually done as soon as the incident is…

What is disaster recovery? How could it be implemented at your school or work? Disaster recovery is the plan and procedure organizations create to protect the organization against losing productivity for extended period during a natural or human-made disaster (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Losing the ability to do business can be devastating for a business, especially for a business that has a high dependency on technology to do business. A disaster recovery plan is a detailed plan that includes a…

Zones: The Entity-Level controls associated with ABC Ferries include a Disaster Recovery Plan, and an Internal Audit of all IT records. Because the Disaster Recovery Plan focuses on higher-level issues, ensuring that all information is backed up off-site and a complete plan is in place in case of a disaster, it is considered an Entity-Level control. In addition, the Internal Audit is performed to help detect fraud and is an overall policy that is in place, making it an Entity-Level control as…

ISCM ensures that the IT infrastructure and IT services can be restored within the specified time limits after a disaster has taken place. It also supports overall business continuity management (BCM), this process addresses business objectives. It analyses and manages risks to:  Reduces risk to an acceptable level  Develop plans for restoring business activities in case of disaster. Issues that might be addressed because of ITSCM:  When firms seem unable to move out of the planning stage…

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Analysis is also made into the changes made after the crash; how the crash could have been avoided and how an event like this can be avoided in future. The Hatfield rail crash was a significant disaster in British rail history. When an express train travelling from Kings Cross Station to Leeds caused a rail to break, the train derailed. This event lead to a major refurb of the British rail network and caused numerous disruptions across the British…

What is contingency planning and business continuity and why does the organization need it? Contingency planning and business continuity is the organization attempting to take control of an uncontrollable and unexpected situation. It is building and improving the organizations ability to respond and restore the organization functions and services when an event occurs. It will aid the organization in determining critical functions and services along with all the dependencies that support those…

Disaster Recovery Plan Wichita State Shockerthon is a company focused on creating awareness and support by raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. Shockerthon uses a database to store many of our clients personal medical information, donor emails, and supporter credit card/debit card information. It is important that Shockerthon creates a plan of action incase the information system is threatened. These threats could arise from natural disasters, security breaches or a virus. Although…

Case Project 12-3 – Research Disaster Recovery Solutions Justin W. Smith Central Texas College ITNW1358 Iron Mountain vs Amazon Web Services What are the key features? • Iron Mountain Since 1951, Iron Mountain has been established as a disaster recovery solution for over six decades. Today, Iron Mountain specializes in tape and other physical backup solutions but in recent years has begun to push towards a Cloud DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) platform to compete with competitors such…