Information Analysis And Systems Sep 2014

All companies in today’s world need a disaster recovery plan in place to prevent risks of losing important information that may lead to loss of business, privacy issues and disruption in everyday operation. Each company, however, basing on the types of information housed and structure of the company can have different disaster recovery plans in place. There is not a one-size-fit-all plan out there that satisfies every company’s purpose. In this case, our client is a medium-sized federal contractor in need of a plan for system and network recovery with special stress on the need of natural disaster prevention measures. In the subsequent sections we will detail the objectives of the disaster recovery plan, scope and capability of the plan and

This case gives us a fundamental understanding of the concept of cloud computing and presents the advantages and issues of this IT infrastructure. This case gives a clear vision of the company’s current situation. Three main questions to consider

This research paper clearly explains the concepts of what is cloud computing and its evolution and components of clouds in which it categorizes. Models are included in the cloud computing these are also explained in the paper and also more benefits occurs in cloud computing. Security is very important when the sensitive data is lying in cloud and the risks to the cloud are enormous. The important points to be considered when a corporate organization is planning to move its data and applications to the cloud computing are Restricted user access, Regulatory compliance, Data Position, Data Separation, Recovery, Support, Long-term viability. Some Future aspects are also discussed in order to manipulate the present environment.

The focus of cloud computing is providing with scalable and a cheap on-demand computing infrastructure with a good quality of service levels. The process of the cloud computing involves a set of network enabled services that can be accessed in a simple and general way. Cloud computing provides with a unique value proposition for any organization to outsource their information and communication technology infrastructure. Moreover, the concept itself provides with a value proposition for an organization as using the cloud saves on cost, resources, and staff, and business opportunities for the organization (Katzan). An extensive connectivity of

Cloud computing models has become the paradigm in more and more organizations. Organizations have realized and assessed both advantages and disadvantages and are willing to adopt it to their information security posture. Reduction in overhead cost is the greatest advantage that organizations look for and cloud computing allows for this. Disaster recovery is another

We would like to provide the benefits of cloud computing without any troubles to propel in the direction it is designed for. This is to be achieved by preventing the owner's data from all risks associated and providing a cloud model that is more secure and efficient. The proposed model shall overcome the security risks defined by the security functions over cloud computing, as follows in (Passent M. et al., 2015):

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.

Best practice is for any organization to test the recovery plan at least once a year which will uncover problems, errors and resolve any issues before an actual recovery process is encountered.(Martin,2002).It will also educate all the staff in managing disaster recovery situations and depending on these observations they can be classified as tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 assets.Assets are the recovery resources which include hardware, software, data and people.The hardware assets are physical components of a computer which help the software run like servers ,routers ,PCs ,cables,backup tape drive , modems , fax machines ,phone system ,printers , scanners and LAN setup , surge protectors , UPS and switches .(Martin,2002)

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

These applications involve a wide range of features considering its complexity. Main features electronic medical records, telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, eLearning and interoperability.

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.

Cloud computing is vast and so are the security threats. When a company opts for cloud computing, it will consider the advantages, but some of the companies fail to consider the vulnerabilities that might lead to data lost and misuse.

Usage of remote servers via internet to store, manage and process data instead of using a personal computer is known as Cloud computing. It’s a set of Information Technology services with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Most of the cloud services are provided by a third party service provider. In cloud computing, organizations can utilize IT services without in advance investment. Despite its benefits obtained from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges. Security is one of the major problems which hinder the growth of cloud. It’s not wise to handing over the important data to another company; such that clients need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data infringement in this new environment. This paper discusses a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges. (Ayoleke)

This project is going to discuss about the Cloud Computing and its application in business. To briefly describe what cloud

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