Disaster Recovery Plan Template Business Continuity

DRP BCP Template

ISO 27000, SOX, PCI-DSS & HIPAA Compliant

The Standard for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Over 3,000 Companies World Wide have chosen this DRP/BCP Template

     

This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be used as a Disaster Planning template for any size of enterprise. The Disaster Recovery template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA compliant. The Disaster Planning Template comes as both a Word document and a static fully indexed PDF document. The DRP/BCP Template includes:

• Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Template (WORD and PDF)
• Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
• Work Plan
• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program
• Pandemic Planning Checklist

Preparation for Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity in light of SOX has two primary parts. The first is putting systems in place to completely protect all financial and other data required to meet the reporting regulations and to archive the data to meet future requests for clarification of those reports. The second is to clearly and expressly document all these procedures so that in the event of a SOX audit, the auditors clearly see that the DRP exists and will appropriately protect the data.

     

New are (Version History):

• Backup & Backup Retention Policy
• Disaster Recovery Audit Program
• Compliance with the ISO 27000 Series Standards (formerly ISO 17799 now ISO 27001 & ISO 27002), Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA
• Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form
• Project Status Report Form
• Personnel Location Report
• Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook
  • Quick Reference Guide
  • Team Alert List (Form)
  • DRP Team Responsibilities
  • DRP Team Checklist
  • Critical Function(s) Definition
  • Normal Business Hour Response Procedures
  • After Hours Response Procedures
  • DRP Location(s) Definition
  • DRP Recovery Procedures
  • Notification Procedures
  • Notification Call List (Form)
• Updated Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
• Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire
• Vendor Phone List Form Updated
• Key Customer Notification Form
• Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form
• Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form
• Business Continuity Audit Program

Premium Edition Disaster Business Continuity Template

The premium edition contains 15 full job descriptions. They are:

• Chief Information Officer
• Chief Security Officer
• Chief Compliance Officer
• VP Strategy and Architecture
• Director Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Director e-Commerce
• Manager Disaster Recovery
• Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery Coordinator
• Disaster Recovery - Special Projects Supervisor
• Manager Database
• Capacity Planning Supervisor
• Manager Media Library Support
• Manager Site Management
• Pandemic Coordinator

DRP BCP Template General Description

The DRP template is over 200 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement.  The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:

• Plan Introduction
• Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix
• DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - DRP / BCP checklist
• Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.
• Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points.
• Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format
• Plan Administration Process
• Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points
• Job Descriptions
  • Disaster Recovery Manager
  • Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Pandemic Coordinator
• Work Plan to modify and implement the template. Included is a list of deliverables for each task. (Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment)

There is a extensive section that shows how a full test of the DRP can be conducted.  It includes

• Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities
• Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan
• Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis
• Training of the Disaster Recovery Team
• Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan
• Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests
• Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

Click on the link below to get the DRP/BC sample pages now and make it part of your disaster recovery toolkit.

Backup Matrix - Sample from Template

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Testimonials

Testimonial - Dave Baker - City of Hamilton -I have found the DRP template invaluable!

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Launch Testing Lab -The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care -I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation -We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.

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Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity - DRP / BCP News

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Disaster Pllanning tool chosen by 3,000 plus enterprises

Just because your company is not a major corporation with hundreds of offices and thousands of employees does not mean your are not under the same pressures to maintain access to critical information in order to run your business and remain competitive. But buying the same complex and expensive solutions as the major players in your industry can be cost-prohibitive -- and unnecessary. You feel the same pressures to secure your data as a massive corporation does, but without the massive budget.

The disaster planning template is the way to go.  Over 3,000 enterprises world wide have chosen it as the tool of choice.

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Disasters can occur any where at any time

Disasters are unpredictable by nature and can strike anywhere at anytime with little or no warning. Recovering from one is expensive and time consuming, particularly for those who have not taken the time to think ahead and prepare for such possibilities.

Disaster Planning - Janco has found that 80% of all enterprises that do not have a disaster recovery / business continuity plan in place before a disaster occurs never reopen.  However, when disaster strikes, those who have prepared and made recovery plans survive with comparatively minimal loss and/or disruption of productivity.

Disasters can take several different forms. Some primarily impact individuals -- e.g., hard drive meltdowns -- while others have a larger, collective impact. Disasters can occur such as power outages, floods, fires, storms, equipment failure, sabotage, terrorism, or even epidemic illness. Each of these can at the very least cause short-term disruptions in normal business operation. But recovering from the impact of many of the aforementioned disasters can take much longer, especially if organizations have not made preparations in advance.

Most of us recognize that these potential problems as possibilities. Unfortunately the randomness of some of these disasters lulls some organizations into a sense of false security-"that's not likely to happen here." However, if proper preparations have been made, the disaster recovery process does not have to be exceedingly stressful. Instead the process can be streamlined, but this facilitation of recovery will only happen where preparations have been made. Organizations that take the time to implement disaster recovery plans ahead of time often ride out catastrophes with minimal or no loss of data, hardware, or business revenue. This in turn allows them to maintain the faith and confidence of their customers and investors.

Disaster Recovery Planning is the factor that makes the critical difference between the organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost and effort and maximum speed, and those that are left picking up the pieces for untold lengths of time and at whatever cost providers decide to charge; organizations forced to make decision out of desperation.

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Disaster Plan Common Failures

Disaster Recovery Business Continuity - Common Failures 

Most common mistakes made in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning are eliminated by implementing the Janco Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template.  Problems that are avoided are:

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A disaster occurs -- now what?

A disaster or business interruption occurs, what do you do?  A quick roadmap to follow is:

• Do not panic and remain calm! When a disaster or business interruption occurs the first priority number is to ensure the safety of the employees.
• Evaluate the disaster!  Determine the impact on your personnel and enterprise operations, this evaluation the event is critical in making the decision to activate the disaster recovery business continuity procedures.
• Communicate with everyone that can be impacted! Communicate with your team, managers, affiliates, and vendors frequently. Even if there is no status to report, do not leave anyone guessing or letting them draw their own conclusions.
• Know the disaster recovery business continuity plan! Testing the Business Continuity Plan regularly helps everyone in becoming familiar with what will happen and how it will be done.
• Be decisive! Once you have determined the level of disaster and everyone is safe to operate, it is time to make the decision if you need to implement the business continuity procedures or if the downtime for recovery acceptable.
• Start the process! Start with recovering the most business critical systems first to restore business operations to a functional level. There should not be any question, which order which applications need to be restored first.
• Lock down all backups and critical documentation! The first step to the recovery is having a set of data to recover from. This could be anything from archived tape, local disk copy, and a co-location or disaster recovery data center.
• Use multiple solution paths! Assume that nothing will work and have alternatives in place  
• Reactivate normal operations! Once the systems are operational, the disaster is over and systems are repaired it is time to move the workloads back to where they were originally.

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Next Disaster Requires Culture of Preparedness

At the center of the recent White House report "Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned," there is a call to "foster a new, robust culture of preparedness."

The challenge comes after the report details the long list of tragedies that last year's deadly hurricane wrought, including more than 1,330 deaths and $96 billion in property damage. In terms of communications, 38 centers that normally handled 911 calls failed, while 3 million customers lost phone service.

The report urges a wide variety of players to build this new culture, including myriad federal agencies and tens of thousands of state and local emergency first responder agencies. And it calls on private citizens and the private sector to take part.

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