TY - GEN AU - Chantico Publishing Company inc. TI - Disaster Recovery Handbook T2 - SERIES SN - 0-8306-7663-5 PY - 1991/// CY - U.S.A PB - Tab Professional and Reference Books KW - Ingeniería Industrial N1 - 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; Ingeniería Industrial N2 - 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 ER -