Disaster Recovery Handbook /
Chantico Publishing Company inc.
Disaster Recovery Handbook / - 1 - U.S.A Tab Professional and Reference Books 1991 - 23.5CM - SERIES .
EDITORIAL
Tab Professional and Reference Books
ISBN
0-8306-7663-5
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Overview
xii
1 Planning for informational services continuity
Purposes of business recovery planning 1
The need for a business recovery plan 2
Another level of business recovery planning 3
Objectives of the business recovery plan 4
Preparation and procedure objectives 6
An overview of the information needed 7
Telecommunications considerations 8
Where the plan begins
10
2 Management and user considerations
Management and user considerations Organizational commitment
14
Involving internal audit
16
20
Considering the levels of business recovery measures
21
Products of an I/S business recovery planning effort
23
Tailoring the plan to the organization 24
Assessing disaster recovery program requirements
28
Priority concerns of management
in the event of a disaster 36
Assessing I/S security preparations
38
1/5 security preparations checklists
39
3
Personnel participation in the Senior management commitment to the plan
plan 56
The I/S disaster recovery coordinator
57
The I/S disaster recovery planning team
60
Staffing assignments and responsibilities
64
Organization for initial response to a disaster 1/S disaster recovery teams:
68
Organization and responsibilities 71
4 Requirements and necessary strategy decisions
Assembling the planning team 92
91
Developing the project plan 95
Objectives of the disaster recovery plan
96
Disaster recovery plan assumptions
97
Types of disaster to consider
99
Key disaster scenario 114
Assessing resource requirements
116
Other resource requirements
146
55
5 Cost analysis for disaster recovery planning
Cost of possible losses 156
155
Probability of occurrences
service disruption incident 160
Probable of economic loss
161
Cost of measures for disaster recovery
166
Risk management and insurance coverage
166
Actions to be taken after a loss occurs
179
Risk analysis
184
6
Selection of appropriate disaster recovery strategies
Evaluating alternative recovery strategies
187
Internal recovery strategies
197
Commercial recovery strategies
200
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS, which include events such as Hurricane Hugo, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Hinsdale, Illinois, Bell central office fire, have clearly illustrated the growing dependence of business operations on the information and transaction processing services provided by computer and communications technologies. A vital lesson learned in the aftermath of these disasters was that those companies that have comprehensive, tested business resumption/disaster recovery plans are able to resume business operations faster and more effec-tively than those that do not have them.
The new buzz words of a modern day era are disaster recovery plan, contingency plan, business resumption plan, service contin-gency plan, and corporate contingency planning. People use them with the same connotation. Should they mean the same? Basically, yes. Do they? No. Such plans range from a data center relocation plan to a comprehensive plan for continuing business in the event of damage to a major
0-8306-7663-5
Ingeniería Industrial
Disaster Recovery Handbook / - 1 - U.S.A Tab Professional and Reference Books 1991 - 23.5CM - SERIES .
EDITORIAL
Tab Professional and Reference Books
ISBN
0-8306-7663-5
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Overview
xii
1 Planning for informational services continuity
Purposes of business recovery planning 1
The need for a business recovery plan 2
Another level of business recovery planning 3
Objectives of the business recovery plan 4
Preparation and procedure objectives 6
An overview of the information needed 7
Telecommunications considerations 8
Where the plan begins
10
2 Management and user considerations
Management and user considerations Organizational commitment
14
Involving internal audit
16
20
Considering the levels of business recovery measures
21
Products of an I/S business recovery planning effort
23
Tailoring the plan to the organization 24
Assessing disaster recovery program requirements
28
Priority concerns of management
in the event of a disaster 36
Assessing I/S security preparations
38
1/5 security preparations checklists
39
3
Personnel participation in the Senior management commitment to the plan
plan 56
The I/S disaster recovery coordinator
57
The I/S disaster recovery planning team
60
Staffing assignments and responsibilities
64
Organization for initial response to a disaster 1/S disaster recovery teams:
68
Organization and responsibilities 71
4 Requirements and necessary strategy decisions
Assembling the planning team 92
91
Developing the project plan 95
Objectives of the disaster recovery plan
96
Disaster recovery plan assumptions
97
Types of disaster to consider
99
Key disaster scenario 114
Assessing resource requirements
116
Other resource requirements
146
55
5 Cost analysis for disaster recovery planning
Cost of possible losses 156
155
Probability of occurrences
service disruption incident 160
Probable of economic loss
161
Cost of measures for disaster recovery
166
Risk management and insurance coverage
166
Actions to be taken after a loss occurs
179
Risk analysis
184
6
Selection of appropriate disaster recovery strategies
Evaluating alternative recovery strategies
187
Internal recovery strategies
197
Commercial recovery strategies
200
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS, which include events such as Hurricane Hugo, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Hinsdale, Illinois, Bell central office fire, have clearly illustrated the growing dependence of business operations on the information and transaction processing services provided by computer and communications technologies. A vital lesson learned in the aftermath of these disasters was that those companies that have comprehensive, tested business resumption/disaster recovery plans are able to resume business operations faster and more effec-tively than those that do not have them.
The new buzz words of a modern day era are disaster recovery plan, contingency plan, business resumption plan, service contin-gency plan, and corporate contingency planning. People use them with the same connotation. Should they mean the same? Basically, yes. Do they? No. Such plans range from a data center relocation plan to a comprehensive plan for continuing business in the event of damage to a major
0-8306-7663-5
Ingeniería Industrial
