Business continuity and disaster recovery

Risk Management - Contingency Planning The major foreseeable risks to the small veterinary clinic are the power loss, failure of the hardware, theft of the client’s data, and the natural disasters. Electrical power outage: power loss pose a major risk to the clinic. A bad storm could cause power loss for several hours, or even for days. Without electrical power the clinic could not for instance run air conditioning equipment, could experience issues with electrical meter or panel, and breakdown…

As the new safety director for the acquired hospital the first thing to do would be a full review of the emergency program. The standard that I deem the most helpful is to use the NFPA 1600. Even though the hospital did not have a safety director, I would meet with whoever was in charge of developing the program to gain a better understanding of the previous processes. Then the program will need reviewed to see if it is up to date and that all employees are properly trained on what is included…

FEMA has developed the National Prevention Framework (NPF) that outlines the whole community approach to a disaster discovery of intelligence or information regarding an imminent threat to homeland and security. Although, communities have participated in some form of evacuation planning as part of emergency management, not many have been able to conduct a full-scale…

Assessment: The key to contingency planning A Threat and Risk Assessment is a critical tool for understanding the innumerable threats to a business, determining the level of risk the business is exposed to, and recommending the appropriate level of protection. Whether or not a threat and risk assessment is conducted can make or break a business. Every business encounters issues, some more disastrous than others conducting a threat and risk assessment can keep businesses ahead of most or allow…

IT Strategies Major information technology strategies which may be relevant to Wobbly Wheels Company include; a) Provision of warehousing services as an internal strategy. This service is aimed at helping all customers in the quest of reducing delivery time. This will make the products of the company available more locally, hence cost reduction on the part of the company. Record keeping will thus be facilitated and this will allow for effective audit procedures in compliance with the Sarbanes…

The Dodd-Frank Act was a piece of legislature passed by the Obama administration in 2010. This act is formally known as the Dodd-Frank Act Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This piece of legislature was a response to the financial crisis of 2008. The Dodd-Frank Act at the time of passing consisted of 2,307 pages, 16 titles and 540 sections of law. This piece of legislation was named after Senator Christopher J. Dodd and Representative Barney Frank who had endorsed this act. This…

secondary site where we store the backups of the backups, in case of a disaster in one location, the secondary substitute will be put into position. We allow our clients to gain access to their savings and information by either electronically accessing our website or physically walking into our secure…

Disaster plans are a very important part of designing a security plan. Disasters come in several types. There are physical disasters like earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, and floods. Then you have non-physical such as data breaches and system failures. In order for us to complete our security plan we need to create a disaster plan to help us should an unfortunate event occur. The first step in creating a disaster plan is to conduct a business impact analysis (BIA). To conduct a BIA, we must…

benefit that risk management provides homeland security is strategic planning. Strategic planning enables homeland security to “view long term in order to building capabilities that can mitigate risk through prevention, protection, response, and recovery activities” ( (Department of Homeland Security, 2011, p.10). Basically, his means risk management assist in building for the future by mitigating future…

attack or security breach. An attack may be anything from a virus attack, power failure, fire, burst water pipe, to an ISP failure. The best solution would be to handle the situation in which the least amount of damage is taken and the amount of recovery time and costs is reduced. The incident response plan consists of a policy that determines if the incident is considered an attack and provides specific directions following the incident. The example I will be using is an incident response…