Disaster Recovery
A disaster is “an occurrence that disrupts the functioning of the organization resulting in loss of data, loss of personnel, loss of business or loss of time” (Hiatt, 2010, P.4). There are four broad categories of disasters. According to Hiatt (2010), disaster occurs as a result of accidents, internal factors such as sabotage, natural disasters like earthquake and armed conflict such as war or terrorism (Hiatt, 2010). In each of these categories, the goal is to mitigate the impact and quickly recover from the disaster. In other to do that effectively, the organizations should put a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place before the actual disaster occurs. The DR plan, which is usually embedded in most organization’ business continuity
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In other words, it is the “process that you can use to help recover information systems and data, if a disaster occurs” (Microsoft, 2015). There are two general concepts or sections of DR plan (Snedater, 2007). One section is “devoted to the technology needs of the company during an emergency” and the other section delineates, in case of a disaster, the “initial steps needed to restore all affected IT systems, including business applications, servers, network infrastructure, and computer facilities to normal operations” (Snedater, 2007). And as most healthcare facilities and nurses rely more and more on technology to carry out patient’s care, disaster recovery become a critical but daunting task to healthcare facilities. Rector (2012), recognized this challenge, and stated “disasters can put healthcare institutions in the daunting position of needing to treat patients and simultaneously preserve at-risk data that may be necessary to …show more content…
In all the steps, the goal is to achieve business continuity, technology infrastructure protection and protection of critical business data from permanent destruction or unauthorized breach (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2012b). By planning for disaster ahead of time, the FEMA noted that companies ensure they minimize downtime and reduce costs in the event of an actual disaster. For nursing care, DR plan reduces turn-around time and minimize disruption of patients care and other hospital business during a disaster. Disaster recovery plan also warrants patients’ and hospital critical data are backed-up, accessible through remote sites, and make patient’ data available even at the time of disaster. Examples of disaster recovery solutions are; Failover clustering, Database mirroring, Peer-to-peer transactional replication, Backup & Restore Feature and Redundant Array of Independent Disks, RAID, (Microsoft). Selection of the appropriate disaster recovery strategy depends on each business requirements of the organization (Microsoft
A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) focuses on the recovery of IT systems, applications, and data in the
5. Of the three Systems/Application Domain risks, threats, and vulnerabilities identified, which one requires a disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan to maintain continued operations during a catastrophic outage? The mainframe or complete data loss. This should have an extensive DRP.
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.
The purpose of the disaster recovery plan is to ensure the process of recovering mission critical systems has a plan of action in case of a disaster. The disaster recovery plan makes sure all the steps to bring up the critical to less critical systems
Firstly, Disaster Recovery, this is a procedure that needs to be implemented in the case an accident occurs within an organisation that may result in the loss of data, for example fire/ water damage. This is when a plan needs to be applied to allow the recovery of data; an example of this could be recovering the backup files, installing new equipment and uploading the backup on the new network. For this to be effective this recovery policy relies on backups to be done regularly, otherwise recovery would not be eligible. The disaster recovery policy is highly beneficial and important as it saves not only the organisation but their money and reputation.
When it comes to the company XYZ Computers the disaster recovery plan needs to incorporate a lot of different questions that have to be answered before you can implement whatever they want achieved. The main questions that are brought up when assessing any question is,”How do we fix this? What are the costs associated with the plan presented?” Another question that should be asked but often isn’t, is “Can we anticipate this problem to help block it before it happens?” From there different categories should be implemented as manmade although not as common as a natural disaster that will affect your system, it still needs to be considered. There should also be a ranking system in the plan using two categories, these
business continuity plans and disaster recovery plans. Select an organization that you are familiar with,
The disaster recovery plan will identify all sections and departments of the organization that will be part of the disaster recovery process. The DR plan will identify the individual teams and the responsibilities of all personnel; along with contact information of all team members. In addition, the disaster recovery plan will also have the services that will need to be restored and the order of urgency of each service. The procedures for each identified disaster will also be documented in the DR plan; “each listing the duties and responsibilities of the parties involved” (Whitman). The last part of the DR plan will provide the follow-up assessment; the final section will provide “details about what is to be accomplished after disaster strikes, specifically what documentation is required for recovery efforts, including mandatory insurance reports, required photographs, and the after-action review format.”
The goal of the information disaster recovery processes and a robust contingency plan is to maintain the resiliency of General Hospital during any type of data disruption. Continuation of essential functions at all times requires the ability to adapt to changes and risks. The disaster recovery and contingency plans consider risk management and other security and emergency management activities that are
First, Incident Response (IR) plan “is a detailed set of processes and procedures that anticipate, detect, and mitigate the effects of an unexpected event that might compromise information resources and assets.” (Whitman, 2013, p. 85). Consequently, Incident response planning (IRP) is the planning for an incident, which occurs when an attack affects information systems causing disruptions. On the other hand, Disaster Recovery (DR) plan “entails the preparation for and recovery from a disaster, whether natural or human-made.” (Whitman, 2013, p. 97). For instance, events categorized as disasters include fire, flood, storm or earthquake. Thus, the differences between an Incident Response (IR) plan and a Disaster Recovery (DR)
Disaster recovery is the process of an organisation uses to recover access the data, and also hardware that are needed to recollect the performance to be in normal position after a disaster occurs. While disaster recovery plans have to be focus in every aspect in any organisation and bringing the gap closure after destruction it can be like data, hardware, or software have been lost and the manpower that composes much of any organisation.
Disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a clearly defined and documented plan of action for use at the time of a crisis. Typically a plan will cover all the key personnel, resources, services and actions required to implement and manage the DR process (comission, 2014).
According to Boeriu and colleagues in their article, “The communication systems between the rescue teams in case of disaster. Evaluation of the awareness of the health professionals and the general public” many disasters weather natural or manmade as results of wars or terrorism have occurred around the world. Thus, there are a number of actions that are taken to reduce the affects of these catastrophes on the population and environment. However, researchers found there are inappropriate actions in emergency situation, and there is delay in providing help. Boeriu and colleagues conducted a study in order to reveal of the kinks and affects of training on improving the knowledge of participants. This study was conducted on medical personnel from several medical centers in the
Owning a business can have many stressors day to day. When starting a business there is a lot of planning and preparation involved. Many small businesses are owners who have put their own money into the business and look at it as an investment. Unfortunately with all the planning that goes into starting a business, one thing is often over looked. Most of the time the “what ifs”, are not part of the planning stage. One reason for this is that people do not like to think of the bad things that could or may happen. So with all the time and planning put into starting a business why not put some extra thought into a plan B if a disaster strikes? This plan B could be a business continuity plan or a disaster recovery plan. Business continuity plans are an essential part of the modern day business. There are so many potential disasters for small businesses that could seize the production or even close the business down for good. A recent study from Gartner Inc., found that “90% of companies that experience data loss go out of business within two years. It also found that 80% of company owners have not thought about how they would keep their businesses up and running if a data disaster occurs.” According to the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, “about 60 percent of businesses that experience a major disaster such as a fire close
It is not hard to see the rapid growth of computer technology and the common usage on internet services across different industries. Many companies rely on Disaster Recovery (DR) services to minimise data loss and shorten the recovery time. However, the current DR services may be costly, or low efficiency about the amount of data loss and the time required to restore. In this essay, we intro the cloud services as the most suitable tool for DR due to the ‘pay-as-you-go’ model, which lower the costs and the automated function reduced the recovery time after any disaster occurred.