Disaster Plan Business Continuity Template Customers
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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use inover 65 countries around the globe
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Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity News
Business continuity after a terroist attack or a pandemic
Most aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery planning
apply to terrorist attacks and pandemics just as much as to fires, hurricanes,
floods, earthquakes, and other natural and manmade disasters. 
However, there are a number of areas that
need to be re-visited because of the uniqueness of these types of
interruptions.
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Communication - While communication is important in any disaster recovery scenario, it is particularly critical in the event of a terrorist attack or a pandemic. Employees and their families may be personally threatened, and they may be exposed to rumors and panics, it is particularly important that they receive accurate, up-to-date information on safety and health issues. Employees also need detailed information on company policies and procedures for working in the new environment, and open communication channels to company officials to help resolve personal and work-related issues in high-stress situations.
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Security and Connectivity - Enterprises must plan to provide secure and reliable access to corporate networks for employees who work in their homes, hotels, or other remote locations. Administrators must have a plan for distributing software to remote computers, ensuring security on computers outside of the corporate firewall, and providing backup and data encryption capabilities to mitigate the risk of mobile devices with sensitive data being lost or stolen.
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Collaboration and Re-Engineered Processes - Planners and developers must re-engineer business processes so they can continue without face-to-face interaction between employees.
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Business continutiy defined
In the simplest of terms,
it is good business for a company to secure its assets. CIO under the direction
of CEOs and enterprise shareholders must be prepared to budget for and secure
the necessary resources to support business continuity.
It is necessary that an appropriate administrative structure be created to effectively deal with crisis management. This will ensure that all concerned understand who makes decisions, how the decisions are implemented, and what the roles and responsibilities of participants are. Personnel used for crisis management should be assigned to perform these roles as part of their normal duties and not be expected to perform them on a voluntary basis. Regardless of the organization - for profit, not for profit, faith-based, non-governmental - its leadership has a duty to stakeholders to plan for its survival.
With the explosion of technology into every facet of the day-to-day business environment there is a need to define an effective infrastructure to support operating environment; have a strategy for the deployment and technology; and clearly define responsibilities and accountabilities for the use and application of technology.
The template comes as both a WORD document utilizing a CSS style sheet that is easily modifiable.
- more infoSecurity Breaches Are a Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Concern
Servers are so compact that they could be removed from the building
in a briefcase. When you consider the magnitude of the IT investment, and the
value of the data and applications that ride on it, you can appreciate the
critical importance of protecting it from unauthorized access. This is especially true after a disaster
- anyone can walk off with you enterprise's key assets.
Server enclosures provide access
control options such as lock-and-key, electronic control, RFID local readers and
access cards.
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Keys can be matched to individual cabinets, multiple cabinets of a certain type (such as containing networking equipment, telephone company equipment or servers), or any other combination desired.
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Electronic control can provide multiple types of access, such as remote control, timed control, card reader control or a combination of all of these methods.
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Diversified access-control strategies enable you to manage access at the level of function and/or individual, while a top-level disaster recovery administrator has a master key.
Wi-Fi Proves Itself in a Disaster Area
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the only communication system that had not broken down was the wireless mesh network deployed in the downtown area to support surveillance cameras credited with reducing the citys prestorm violent-crime rate.Today it still performs police duties, but as the lone public communications system left in the city, it also carries VoIP traffic that is the lifeline for many city businesses.
The storm wiped out wireline phone service and cellular networks, and those that it didn't destroy outright couldn't be kept up because the city could not get fuel to the backup generators needed to keep the networks running, Meffert told an audience at a session during Spring VON 2006 this week.
- more infoEmail Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Requirements
Disaster
Recovery and Business Continuity for email requires at least six factors to be
included when the plan is created.
They are:
- Emergency backup
for primary mail server
- Ability
to send and receive emails
- View
"some" email history
- Retain
history during the recovery period
- Spam
and virus filtering
- After
the fact synchronization with primary email server
Based on working with thousands of customers, Janco Associates has developed a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template that includes everything that you need to create a custom Disaster Plan.
You can download a full copy of the table of contents by going to http://www.e-janco.com/Register_drp.asp.