While many organizations have a tendency to focus on the most complex aspects of disaster recovery, the fact of the matter is that disaster recovery starts with the basics, and ends with them. You can get into all the complexities that you want, but if you don't understand the basics, your disaster recovery plans will be severely flawed. Topics Disaster Recovery Survival Rule 1 Rule 2 Rule 3 Rule 4 Rule 5 Rule 6 In a day and age where natural disasters and acts of terrorism are almost an annual occurrence, it has become critical for organizations to carefully consider…

Disaster recovery is pretty self-explanatory, since it involves the recovery of your business operations after a destructive event. These disasters can range from horrible natural disasters to computer viruses. Topics Disaster Recovery Plan Business Impact Analysis What they all have in common is that these events reduce the ability of your company of function in the normal manner. While you would think that most large corporations and enterprises pay a great deal of attention to disaster recovery, the fact of the matter is that this isn't the case. Many executives have an overly optimistic mindset when it comes to disaster…

Reality of Data and Application Protection Business data and applications are crucial for the success of any commercial organisation. Information related to business needs to be protected from system and network disasters. Topics Reality of Data IT Continuity Planning Components for IT Continuity IT Infrastructure Continuity Design IT Related Threat to Business An ideal scenario for complete data protection is to have the network connected to a back-up facility that will monitor any changes in the data. Each time the data changes, the back-up facility will mirror the changes so that network administrators can just reload the data to the…

Businesses are increasingly conducted over IT networks and it is imperative for them to maintain network confidentiality more than ever before. A failure to ensure the security of business IT network can lead to dire consequences. In order to secure these network, a number of changes are made to the infrastructure of the underlying network, and a network administrator is designated to create policies which will protect the network from unauthorized access. Topics The Security Management for a Network Network Security Attributes Types of Network Attacks Reasons for Network Attacks Constant Guard against Intrusion System versus Network Intrusion Discovering System Intrusion…

First Step for Risk Assessment Information that is gathered everyday regarding client and business transactions are either stored on servers or on user computers. These stored information are considered important and sensitive in the company’s interest and hence they need to be protected from network attacks and other unknown circumstances. Network administrator manage and protect the network through a series of passwords and data encryption. Topics First Step for Risk Assessment Identifying Essential Data/System/Hardware Identifying External Blocks Measuring the Risk to Your Enterprise Calculating the Assets Value The Liquid Financial Assets Value Getting Everything Together Unfortunately, there will always be…

While no one can be sure of where or when a disaster will occur, or what form the disaster will come in, it is important to be prepared for the unexpected. There are many companies today that have not taken into consideration the impact of disasters and this is a grave mistake. Topics BCP Guidelines BCP for Effective Planning Building an Efficient Recovery Solution Plan Recovery Point Objective Hardware and Data Back Up Requirements Evaluation If a company is subject to a disaster, whether natural or man-made, the measures it has taken to protect itself can mean the difference between…

Introduction Having a continuity plan for any business establishment is highly important. Continuity plan need not be highly expensive. However, it should be dependent on business processes, along with the vulnerabilities that these processes have. Topics Introduction Business Impact Assessment Phases Role of Risk Assessment in BIA Recovery Plan Disaster Recovery Objectives Establish Disaster Recovery Plans Should you fail to identify either processes or risk, you cannot handle any kind of disaster, and you will not be able to deal with any of the consequences that come along with it. One aspect that any business organisation should become familiar with…

Introduction Topics Introduction What is an Online Back Up? Online Back Up Strategies Implementing Disaster Avoidance Implementation and Storage Security Issues to Consider Many of us are familiar with backing up our data.  While it sounds pretty simple, the fact is that most of the computer users do not backup their data. Some of the excuses which they often make involve how long it takes, how slow it is, or how many DVDs or disks they need. However, once disaster strikes, the loss that they will suffer by not having their data backed-up can be very severe. If you are…

Topics Producing Disaster Recovery Site Disaster Recovery Site Essentials Disaster Recovery Site Control Center One of the most important aspect of disaster recovery is the production of a disaster recovery site, which is a remote location where duplicates of your data can be stored in the event of a disaster or emergency. These days, such sites have become more important than ever before. With the advent of terrible natural disasters, along with devastating acts, it has become far too risky for enterprises to store all their data on site. While even basic disaster recovery requires you to make backups of…

Planning disaster recovery ensures that network developers will have an action plan when disaster strikes. Even with a simple action plan, network developers will know where to start and build up the execution. Topics Actual Disaster Recovery I. Problem Detection Stage II. Execution Phase III. Reconstruction Phase Restoring Communication after Disaster Restoration Procedure Communication Recovery Practice With a simple plan that only revolves around a concept, the network managers and the whole IT department will have the ability to adjust but it is going to be a lot of work to recover from disaster. On the other hand detailed planning…