♦  Disaster Recovery Templates and Business Continuity Planning

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are complex and time-consuming tasks, requiring you to create effective, actionable plans that take into account a wide range possible, but unlikely scenarios. They include such things as:

• Risk analysis
• Data backup and recovery
• Physical security
• Network security
• Customer notification procedures
• Building a disaster recovery team

Starting from scratch is almost impossible.

• How do you know what scenarios to plan for?
• And how do you balance risk against cost?
• And, once you have a plan, how do you ensure it will work?

This collection of research, guides and toolkits will assist in your business disaster recovery planning. From disaster recovery plan templates to best practices and even pandemic flu planning, you can be assured that your business will be ready if disaster strikes.

• Define the scope of your plan
• Conduct a risk analysis
• Conduct a business impact analysis
• Document your existing infrastrucutre, including:
  • phones lines
  • passwords
  • vendor lists
  • network topology
  • hardware
  • remote locations
• Identify tolerance for downtime
• Develop test scenarios and test