What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? And How to Make one.

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What would happen if a disruptive event meant you no longer have full access to your critical technology infrastructure or data? You need a Disaster Recovery Plan.
While Business Continuity (BC) focuses on restoring and maintaining the whole of an organization’s operations, following a disruptive event…
Disaster Recovery (DR) focuses on its technology systems and data.
See our video: 'What is a Business Continuity Plan?' • What is a Business Con...
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a formal document that describes how an organization can quickly resume work after an unplanned incident.
Your disaster recovery plan is, therefore, the part of a business continuity plan (BCP) that deals with:
• Restoring IT and communications functions
• Resolving data loss
Typical events can be:
• Data-center or building-wide
• Organizational
• City-wide
• Local
• Regional
• Even national or multi-national in scope
Causes could be, for example:
• Natural disasters
• Accidents and human error
• Terrorism or acts of war
• Cyber-crime
As a result, an effective disaster recovery plan can
• Minimize disruption
• Contain commercial losses
• Reduce reputational impacts
• Avoid regulatory or legal breaches
So, what needs to go into your Disaster Recovery plan?
Here’s our 6-point Disaster Recovery Plan Framework
1. Make a full inventory of your assets:
a. Hardware
b. Communications
c. Software
d. Data
2. Determine your minimum acceptable impacts, in terms of:
a. Downtime
b. Loss of service
3. Document your DR processes and procedures based on the services and tools you have developed or procured. These will include:
a. Key SLAs and uptime guarantees
b. Restoration priorities for data and functionality
c. Back-up site and resources
d. Data validation and reversion
e. Code versioning
4. Set out DR responsibilities
a. Operational
b. Authorizational
c. Fall-backs in cases where prime role-holders are not available
5. Craft a communications plan that covers:
a. Internal
b. Key stakeholders (inc regulators)
c. External (reputation protection)
d. Confidentiality and data security
6. Training and rehearsal program
a. Informing people
b. Training people
c. Tests, simulations, and rehearsals
d. Reviews and revisions to plan and procedures
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@Onlinepmcourses 3 жыл бұрын

Disaster Recovery is about getting your technology back to normal after a significant disruption. Do you need to factor it into your project planning? It's best to assume that things can go wrong, and link in with your organization's DRP. Thank you for watching - please do subscribe to the channel and, to join my community, sign-up at onlinepmcourses.com/assets440251/the-onlinepmcourses-newsletter/

@Onlinepmcourses 3 жыл бұрын

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@inspirekidsproject 5 ай бұрын

Hi Mike. Can a DRP be used to manage a situation caused by a Pandemic? The reason I ask is because your video clearly states DRP takes cognisance of only IT infrastructure, data and communication. Please can you guide? thanks

@Onlinepmcourses 5 ай бұрын

@@inspirekidsproject It's odd terminology, but it is standard. DRP refers specifically to IT and comms systems. The wider term is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This refers to an organization's ability to maintain operations following a disruptive event - like a pandemic. I can't tell you why the IT community has seized the DR term and made it their own - but they have. My video, What is a Business Continuity Plan: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZ96dLFz0rrIoXU.html

@jeremiahtheofarr2022 4 ай бұрын

Great explanation ❤

@Onlinepmcourses 4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@kennythompson9646 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Clayton's presentations make me want to start planning right away

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

Go to it! Thanks.

@money0edits74 3 ай бұрын

Watching this the day before my gcse

@Onlinepmcourses 3 ай бұрын

I hope it goes well for you!

@taminosaki-ibiteingarrick1200 4 ай бұрын

Educative

@Onlinepmcourses 4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@manirathinam8620 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Very helpful & informative. Thank you!

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@michalkucia7439 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful video, thank you

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@djsonic_pr 2 жыл бұрын

your awesome dude!

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

You too!

@williamafriyie5688 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is awesome 👏 thanks you open my mind more

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

It's a great pleasure.

@king0vdarkness 2 жыл бұрын

what about a pandemic management plan or should this be covered in your risk management matrix?

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

Hi - you should probably have a Pandemic Management Plan as a free-standing contingency - or it may be part of your wider Crisis Management plan. However, a Disaster Recovery Plan refers specifically to disruptions to critical technology. It doesn't matter what the source of the disruption, so in that sense, a pandemic is covered. That said, the recent pandemic will not itself have triggered tech failures in many cases. But... and here is a big BUT. A big disruption to critical tech during a pandemic with limited availability of skilled staff will exacerbate the problems and slow resolution. So, it may be wise for organizations to think in terms of multiple parallel crises, causing a cascade failure. In this case, does your DRP include access to fallbacks that are not constrained by the limited availability of skilled staff? Good question.

@kennythompson9646 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone here know where someone who's interested in the discipline of BCP/M can take a cert?

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

I don't, I am afraid. But Google is your friend - or any other search engine! Try the IT industry - in the UK, that's the BCS. Maybe ITIL includes this.