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- Have management communicated that disaster recovery is not a tactical IT project but as a strategic IT asset.
- Create a disaster recovery and business continuity process that is integrated into the organization
- Allocate costs associated with the disaster recovery business continuity plan as part of the base overhead so that costs are distributed across the entire organization
- Treat disaster recovery and business continuity as "mission critical" for cost and staff allocations
- Establish metrics for the process and timing of recovery events
- Test the plans at least once every six months or whenever there is major enhancement to the enterprise's computing or operational infrastructure
- Monitor how other enterprises and your competitors are faring after and event occurs
- Quarterly review you media communication protocol for who says what when to whom when an event occurs
- Pool your assets and personnel to provide resilience capabilities for interconnected systems or collaborative technologies such as payments or check processing.
- Test the back-ups (at least quarterly) so that what is taken is what is needed for recovery and that it meets your recovery performance metrics.
- Strategy and Charter Statement of Authority - Includes not only CIOs but also an IT Management Council (Steering Committee) and functional group leaders.
- IT Management Structure - Organizational approaches, roles and responsibilities for both centralized and de-centralitized organizations.
- Compliance - Objectives and responsibilities for IT, users, and auditors
- Personnel Practices - Everything in the employment life-cycle
- ERP and Omni Commerce - Strategy and best practices defined
- Controls - Definition of types and risk analysis
- Application Development Standards - Includes quality assurance requirements
- Backup and Recovery - Strategy and process alternatives
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Includes critical function analysis
- Security - Road map to how and what including appropriate management actions
- Access Control - Including separation of duties and definition of least privilege
- Server and Data Center Facility Requirements - Best practices to protect the physical assets
- Technical Guides including: HIPAA Audit Program; ISO Security Audit
Checklist; CIO job description; Security Management Compliance Checklist; and
much more.
- Focus on havinb multiple providers - validate that the physical location of the providers is significantly different than your primary facilities - Define ways to connect to the provider when your facility is unavailable to your company.
- Focus on primary applications:
E-Mail
Web sites
Telephones
BYOD - Rank business application on importance - which ones and how soon they need to be available - have serial numbers and passwords readily available
- Have clear definition and contracts in place before the event which state vendor's DR capabilities and promises. Know what provisions it has for disaster recovery and fail-over - and what the promise times for service restoration are.
- Test all mission-critical applications with vendors - Plan for at least an annual test of the entire DR and fail-over procedure - use the vendor's data center as if it were your own. Validate that your company will not be crowded out by a "more important" customer.
- Utilize the cloud's strengths including on-demand availability for computing, storage, networking, and technical support resources. Pay only for what you use.
- Leverage private cloud and tools with which you can quickly replicate operating systems and applications for purposes of DR and fail-over.
- Include redundant communications channels - include multiple lines with a mix of data communication topologies to lessen - most enterprises are in multiple locations and should have cloud data center DR and fail-over strategies that allow for an easy transitions to alternate sites in different geographic locations if a major catastrophe strikes a particular area.
- Have trained personnel and written (non-electronic) documentation at remote DR/fail-over sites
Disaster Recovery Best Practices
DRP Template and Security Manuual Template
CIOs and management executives say they have disaster recovery and business continuity under control
Best Practices - Top 10 - Janco has found that successful organization typically follow or have implemented these 10 best practices.
IT Governance Infrastructure addresses DR/BC
IT Governance offering helps to implement Best Practices
The template covers everything from the basics to the organizational inter-relationships. Included in the template are:
Order IT Infrastructure Policies Download Selected Pages
Defining Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD)
Disaster Recovery Business Contuintiy RTO and MTPOD
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD) became an issue with the introduction of British Standard 25999-2. When applied correctly, MTPOD improves management's understanding of the disaster recovery business continuity program and clarifies the enterprise's recovery priorities.
Cure for Business Growing Pains - Hire the right people
Best Practices for Recruiting and Hiring
A growing business is a successful business, but it comes with its own set of complications. Growing pains can arise from new employees, added roles and responsibilities, and a premium on office space.
onder for a moment the last person you hired. After you selected them, did they work out as intended? Or did they turn into somebody totally unlike what you thought when you interviewed them?
The most important aspect of any business is recruiting, selecting, and retaining top people. Research shows those organizations that spend more time recruiting high-caliber people earn 22% higher return to shareholders than their industry peers. However, most employers do a miserable job selecting people. Many companies rely on outdated and ineffective interviewing and hiring techniques. This critical responsibility sometimes gets the least emphasis.
Cloud is integral to DRP/BCP
Cloud and Disaster Recovery Bundle
Cloud is now an inegrail part of disaster recovery process and business continuity plans. Janco has found that disaster plans that include the cloud, if done well, simplify and improve the success of the recovery process.
Here are 10 things to have on your cloud DR checklist.
