Contingency Plan

Presentation regarding the university’s Disaster Recovery Plan/Enterprise Continuity Plan including: basic structures; roles within the DRP/ECP plan; areas within a company if addressed improve resilience to catastrophic events, and an employee awareness campaign.

Business enterprises depend on information to survive and to ensure business continuity. However, in IT protecting information from disasters is a constant challenge. In spite of having adequate data backup and storage, companies face business disruptions and useful data is lost. Thoughtful planning and collaboration of people at all levels in the organization can help to develop comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plans

4-Create a contingency strategy. Systematic recovery strategies ensure that the system can be interrupted and then recovered quickly and effectively.

Although contingency management has yielded impressive short term results, more research is needed to obtain convincing long term results and evidence that will support the notion that this treatment can sustain long term beneficial results for those with substance abuse issues. There have been issues with patient relapse, particularly in the case of smoking addiction and schemes should be developed in order to combat these relapses and create a more effective intervention programme (Higgins, Silverman and Heil, 2008). More public knowledge is also needed about contingency management as an intervention for addiction as it is not as well-known as other drug counselling or addiction treatments/centres. If more knowledge is distributed about reinforcement and contingency methods, more substance users may come forward for treatment.

“Once a disaster strikes and the disaster response plan is executed, post-disaster management is crucial. Documentation is a key main step in any disaster plan. The facility must prepare a detailed record of the disaster event that includes at minimum a list of patient records affected, recovery efforts taken, and outcomes. Reconstruction of information must be documented, including the method used, and the entry must be authenticated according to the facility 's policy”(AHIMA,2003).In the case of electronic health records, if the organization has a backup plan and its data is stored in a secure remote location patient’s health information is not lost. The electronic health record plan ensures

Traditionally, an IT disaster recovery plan hasn’t had a very high priority on the health care agenda. Stakeholders knew it was an important topic, but it was usually a topic last on the list of spending priorities. In the past five years, it has reached the top of the list. Hospitals and private practices have come to realize that the services that use on a daily basis have to be up and running continuously without interruption. Therefore, the endeavor is to create a disaster recovery plan to ensure that critical health information technology continues to be accessible and functional even during a disaster.

Immediately after a disaster or attack the emergency phase is initiated and from there several tasks will begin, Team A will be responsible for assessing the damage to the main Data and I.T Facility’s and team B will closely monitor the situation and report any finding to the corresponding personnel, All effects to the damaged areas will be entered into the damage assessment plan which will be handled by the administrative team C.

Formulating a detailed recovery plan is the main objective of the entire IT disaster recovery strategy

This document includes the disaster recovery plan and related contingency requirements for Jeeb’s Band and Trust. It consists of detailed written practices and procedures to mitigate interruptions to “critical information systems” and the “loss of data and services” from the effects of natural or man-made disasters. The DRP applies both major, usually catastrophic, events that deny access to the normal facility for an extended period, and to less catastrophic events that may deny access to only portions of the facility or certain systems. The DRP is an IT-focused plan and therefore may also be referenced as a Technology Recovery Plan which has been designed to restore operability of the designated systems and applications in Jeeb’s Bank and Trust’s data center facility at an alternate site (or within the existing facility if not a total loss) after an emergency.

Aviato has experienced steady growth in recent years, which has forced us to make several changes to ensure our company’s long term scalability. Our next big move will be switching our cloud provider from Amazon Web Services to the Google Cloud Platform. Although this transition is exciting, it is likely that we will experience problems along the way. To efficiently handle these issues when they arise, we have outlined major risks and developed some contingency plans.

For the recovery of business functions using IT infrastructure, restoration of the work area (including associated technology), replacement of personnel (resulting from loss of personnel following a Pandemic) and business application systems must be performed. BU/Department strategy may choose to leverage or align with a corporate recovery strategy and be aware of any initiatives, corporate or otherwise, to ensure economies of scale and cost are leveraged accordingly. During the recovery period, the site will need to maintain business critical processes and procedures where possible, and stockpile transactions while waiting for systems restoration. There may be a loss of data due to the timing of backups and their availability at offsite storage after a disaster event which is

In a major disaster, key government officials may become incapacitated. The Mayor, Governor, or even the President might be missing. Similarly, government departments might become disabled or even be destroyed. Therefore, a system has been devised for these contingencies. This address the issue of how to continue to function under duress. The key is continuity. For example, continuity of government (COG) is defined as “measures that ensure that representative government survives during and after a disaster.” (Lindell & Perry, 2007). A similar concept is continuity of operations (COO) which is defined as “measures that ensure that government departments can deliver essential services during and after a disaster.” (Lindell & Perry, 2007). The COO is usually referred to as a COO plan or “COOP.” COGs and COOPs contain the following common elements: (1) concept of operations, (2) essential functions, (3) succession and authority, (4) EOCs and alternate facilities, (5) interoperable communications, (6) vital records are protected, and (7) training and exercises are maintained.

Disaster recovery plan defines how an organization will deal with a possible disasters whether is natural or man-made. A disaster is just an event that makes the business process of normal functions impossible or challenging. A disaster recovery plan comprises of the protections taken so that the effects of a disaster will be mitigated and the organization will be able to continue or rapidly resume their normal operation roles. Normally, disaster recovery planning includes an analysis or risk assessment of the organizations processes and stability needs; it may also consist a major focus on disaster prevention. Disaster recovery plan in the United States usually has been controlled by State and local governments, with the Federal government as a supporting role. While we remain truthful to the basic constitutional principle, we must also accept that events such as hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, require the government, both local and State to tailor the application of these principles to the

Disaster Recovery “covers situations where a potion or all of a data center is lost. This is planning and preparation for the restoration of services that have a wider impact than just a single service.” (McBride) Disaster recovery not only incorporates the backup and recovery processes, but also looks at prioritizing. I/S people must know which services to restore first due, including off-site facilities, and have detailed planning. Companies often invest in resources, planning, training and periodic testing’s in case such an issue were to arise. Business Continuity plans also incorporate things from Murphy’s Law and Risk assessment, Backup/Recovery and Disaster Recovery plans, but looks deeper into the company as a whole and understands the process that allows the business to operate.

It outlines assessment, communication, escalation, declaration, mobilization, and business continuity procedures / requirements to invoke various recovery strategies. To the extent possible, existing processes and procedures will be referenced within the BCP document and not reproduced in the BCP.