Disaster Recovery PlanningThe events of 9/11 caused the IT world to dramatically alter its view of disaster recovery. Companies recognize their increased dependency on electronic information and the impact that disasters can have on business.
Structured develops disaster recovery plans that fit your budget and your aversion to risk. Each customized DR plan is designed to get your business back up and running as quickly as possible. Structured will help you plan your disaster recovery methods with the following methodology:
Risk Assessment—Structured will help you assess the risks and business impacts of various disasters, including natural, technical and human threats.
Establish Priorities—We’ll help you evaluate the procedures and equipment required to continue operations for each functional group and department within your organization.
Determine Recovery Strategies—Structured helps you evaluate alternatives for recovering operations when hardware, software, facilities, communications channels and other functions are compromise by disaster. Such alternatives can include remote data centers or fully redundant hot sites. It’s also important to consider special security requirements.
Collect Data—An important part of documenting your DR plan includes the collection of important information such as contact information for critical personnel, inventories of hardware and software, insurance policies and notification checklists. Structured helps customers organize and facilitate their data gathering.
Document Plan—Documentation helps provide the roadmap final procedure development. Structured gives you direction about how to assign specific responsibilities (e.g., administrative functions, facilities, user support, data backup and restoration, etc.) to the appropriate members of your recovery team.
Testing and Approval—All good DR plans need to be tested and evaluated on a regular basis. Doing so helps provide the motivation for maintaining and updating the plan. Structured can help you determine the feasibility of your DR plans and identify areas for modification. We’ll also facilitate authorization by getting your top management to approve policies, procedures, responsibilities, and regular updates to the plan.
