Business continuity and disaster recovery

1. IT Service Continuity Management: 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…

Introduction There are all sorts of disasters that can impact a business ability to perform its normal functions. They can range from a flood, hurricane or a tornado to a switch that fails, a laptop that’s misplaced or contracts a virus. Even what might seem to be a minor event could cause a major impact and even bring some business operations to a complete standstill. There are some statistic’s that indicate about 60% of businesses that experience some sort of disaster will not recover due to…

their impact on business when these critical functions are disrupted. This information forms the foundation of recovery strategies, investment in prevention and mitigation strategies (www.ready.gov). BIA identifies the critical business functions and their impact but do not recommend solutions, which is later covered in the scope of Business Continuity Plan. BIA acts as an input provider to BCP. In a nutshell, one can define BIA is a top down approach for (i) Identifying critical business…

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…

Case Study #2: Disaster Recovery / IT Service Continuity Name Institution Affiliation Case Study #2: Disaster Recovery / IT Service Continuity Overview. Disaster recovery also known as business contingency plan is the ability for a business to be able to deal with any occurring disaster (Snedaker, 2013). We need to know that incase of disasters such data breach it is normally impossible for the business processes to run smoothly. In that case, disaster recovery plan incorporates all the…

detail with examples as to why a business needs a disaster recovery plan and Business Continuity plan? Disasters cannot always be avoided. However with creating recovery plans the outcomes of a disaster can be minimized. A Disaster recovery plan lowers the downtime and potential data loss for businesses and individuals that have them. First it protects the organization if computer services become unusable. Additionally, the plan minimizes the disturbances of the business and gives some level of…

We learned and discussed the importance of planning, plus exercising the plans. The main topic was based on developing and maintaining the Business Continuity of Operations Plan, known as the COOP. During the week we read The Ducan, et al. and Clas documents. Having read both, seem to give the class a good solid foundation for the discussion. Additionally, by having and following proven steps will assist in creating the document. The class agreed in our conversations that without well thought…

all aspects of the business into consideration. The organizational structure is conducive to a strong and clear reporting channels which include the CIO reporting to the CFO and EVP. One step lower on the corporate ladder the VPs of applications, operations, information security and database administration reports to CIO. Findings -- System Development…

undergraduate, this course was my first exposure to the concept of business continuity panning (BCP) and information technology disaster recovery planning (IT DRP). I have learned a lot about the concepts of business continuity and disaster recovery in just a few weeks. However, the interchange of terminologies referencing to the same thing made this course a bit daunting to me. For instance, continuity of operations (COOP) and continuity of operations plan (COOP), both terms meaning essential…

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…