Building an enterprise Business Continuity Plan means understanding business functions and implementing measures to ensure that they can continue to operate in the event of an outage or disaster, regardless of the presence of IT capabilities.

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All organizations have some kind of disaster recovery (DR) plan, but not necessarily the right kind. The enterprise should consider if the current DR plan is sufficient. Read this solution set to determine how much time and money are necessary...

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Your organization likely already has some form of Disaster Recovery (DR) capability in place, whether you realize it or not. However, that doesn't mean your organization has the right amount of DR capability. This video will help you determine...

When disaster strikes, normal operations of the enterprise are suspended and replaced with operations spelled out in the disaster recovery plan (DRP). Recover from the disaster and lead the enterprise back to a state of normal operations by...

(16-Feb-10) Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new security services portfolio reflects an expansion of its security capabilities for a wide array of partner offerings while providing integration between these services and products to reduce complexity, said...

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When a Business Impact and Risk Assessment is completed, you will have a complete list of the risks specific to each IT asset, as well as risk reports and profiles for the business impact analysis. Consider revisiting your Business Impact and...

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The purpose of this bundle is to assist you in creating the basis of the actual DRP document itself. Armed with the results of your business impact analysis and risk assessments, you are now ready for IT Continuity Plan Creation, which is...

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The purpose of this bundle is to assist you in the care and feeding of the DRP after its creation and communication to the rest of the company. There is a series of tasks that must be completed in order to keep the DRP current and actively...

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The first task in completing an IT Continuity Plan is having a clear idea of how IT assets are vulnerable to threats and what level of protection is in place. This means you need to know what assets you have, the specific risks to those assets,...

Buying and installing a backup generator for business continuity is not a fire-and-forget proposition. Choose the right generator for the job, and give it the care it needs.

Beyond the use of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), the idea of continuous electricity is a tempting one for ensuring data center continuity, but backup generators are only financially feasible in certain situations. Base the decision on...

If Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) fails to recover technical services in the event of a catastrophe, enterprise business will suffer and IT professionals will lose their jobs. Use the shortcomings of others to guard against failure by building...

If IT is unable to deliver on the DRP when it truly counts, the enterprise will fail to recover technical services and IT professionals will lose their jobs. Learn from the shortcomings of others to build an effective and efficient DRP.

IT is on the hook for disaster recovery plans (DRP), yet IT professionals are often forced to bring their DRP skills to bear on business continuity planning (BCP). Even though IT can act as a facilitator for BCP, demonstrate to leadership why...

Statistically speaking, odds are you will never have to invoke your company's DRP (disaster recovery plan). This is cold comfort, however, because disasters care not for statistics. Catastrophes will nullify your ability to deliver IT services...

Few small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) can afford much in the way of offsite redundancy for disaster recovery purposes, and fewer still have budget room for a proper hot site. While virtualization is a tempting option to provide resiliency...

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Every Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) must be based on solid planning of the enterprise's security operations, and a realistic assessment of current documentation to ensure its accuracy and completeness. To assist IT departments with the DRP, this...

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Every Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) must be based on solid planning of the enterprise's security operations, and a realistic assessment of current documentation to ensure its accuracy and completeness. To assist IT departments with the DRP, this...

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Thorough disaster recovery (DR) planning cannot occur unless IT identifies vulnerabilities in its security operations that could permit system downtime. Conduct a thorough operational analysis to uncover physical, procedural, or software...

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IT departments hope they never need to test their work beyond scheduled scenario tests of the plan. As such, every Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) must be based on solid planning of the enterprise's security operations, and a realistic assessment...

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Thorough disaster recovery (DR) planning cannot occur unless IT identifies vulnerabilities in its security operations that could permit system downtime. Conduct a thorough operational analysis to uncover physical, procedural, or software...

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IT departments hope they never need to test their work beyond scheduled scenario tests of the plan. As such, every Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) must be based upon a solid planning of the enterprise's staff and a realistic assessment of priorities.

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Before any significant amount of work can be done developing a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), it is essential to know exactly what the scope of the plan will be and who will be involved in developing it. To assist IT departments with DR planning,...

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Before any significant amount of work can be done developing a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), it is essential to know exactly what the scope of the plan will be and who will be involved in developing it. To assist IT departments with DR planning,...

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IT departments hope they never need to test their work beyond scheduled scenario tests of the plan. As such, every Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) must be based upon a solid planning of the enterprise's staff and a realistic assessment of priorities.

Many enterprises are moving away from disk-to-tape as their primary backup method. However, many of these enterprises are focused on fixing the problems of tape without considering the larger context of what the business needs from backup. Take...

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Use Info-Tech's "Non-Terrestrial WAN Redundancy Assessment" to determine which non-terrestrial WAN connectivity technology best suits the needs of the enterprise.

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The Disaster Recovery Administrator's role is to ensure the security and integrity of data, data systems, and data networks across the entire organization. This includes designing and implementing disaster recovery processes and business...

Making changes to systems can sometimes introduce errors, thereby increasing the risk of business discontinuity. Use these tools to help document changes and retrace steps in the event of continuity failure.

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Use this checklist to assess your organization's level of risk in the event of Internet connectivity loss.