Revisit Your BCP Plan

摘要

Adequate disaster recovery and business continuity planning is no longer a prerequisite for large enterprises with extremely mission critical business operations. It is now accepted worldwide as a basic requirement for every organization and business. We look at key steps you need to take along with your DR plan to ensure you are able to recover data after a disaster has struck.rnDisaster recovery and business continuity planning should reflect the real and on-going needs of the business activity or function. Each company today needs to have a disaster recovery plan, which is designed in accordance with the company's corporate vision and business need. This involves choice and implementation of processes, policies and infrastructure as per the disaster recovery plan, which in turn pertains to application and network elements that are essential to DR, and consequently the business. However having a DR plan is not enough. Disaster can strike in any form, it can be a natural disaster (fire, earthquake etc) or technology related disaster (eg malicious virus attack, power issues, UPS blowouts, etc) or even related to humans (bomb blasts, pandemics, etc).