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 Shockerthon may not be comparable to Koch Industries, in size, it is imperative to have a plan for any situation concerning the threat of information systems as risking personal information may discredit the reputation Shockerthon has built for itself.
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Shockerthon aims to recover back to normal operation hours within 24 hours. When working with sensitive information such as receiving donations directly through credit/debit cards, sending donation receipts, and keeping in contact with current and future donors it is important to have our systems operating back to normal as soon as possible. After setting a time frame for information loss or disaster recovery, it is on to creating point objectives to outline how the backup should operate.
When setting the recovery point objectives, it is important to consider that the primary use for the Shockerthon Database. The Shockerthon Database is used to reference client information, calculate growth by donations and money collected from fundraising efforts, and also sending donation receipts. While understanding the primary use for Shockerthons Database, it is understood that once a week should be a sufficient amount data backed up. If the system backs itself up every week, it would save most vital data that could be lost since the documents are not revised all that
Shockerthon aims to recover back to normal operation hours within 24 hours. When working with sensitive information such as receiving donations directly through credit/debit cards, sending donation receipts, and keeping in contact with current and future donors it is important to have our systems operating back to normal as soon as possible. After setting a time frame for information loss or disaster recovery, it is on to creating point objectives to outline how the backup should operate.
When setting the recovery point objectives, it is important to consider that the primary use for the Shockerthon Database. The Shockerthon Database is used to reference client information, calculate growth by donations and money collected from fundraising efforts, and also sending donation receipts. While understanding the primary use for Shockerthons Database, it is understood that once a week should be a sufficient amount data backed up. If the system backs itself up every week, it would save most vital data that could be lost since the documents are not revised all that