Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 10 best practices
Most CIOs and management executives all say they have disaster recovery and business continuity under control - Do they really?
Preparation for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in light of mandated requirements has two primary parts. The first is putting systems in place to completely protect all financial and other data required to meet the reporting regulations and to archive the data to meet future requests for clarification of those reports. The second is to clearly and expressly document all these procedures so that in the event of a SOX audit, the auditors clearly see that the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan exists and appropriately protects the data and assets of the enterprise.
Best Practices - Top 10 - Janco has found that successful organizations typically follow or have implemented these 10 best practices.
Have management communicate that disaster recovery is not a tactical IT project but a strategic IT asset.
Create a disaster recovery and business continuity process that is integrated into the organization
Allocate costs associated with the disaster recovery business continuity plan as part of the base overhead so that costs are distributed across the entire organization
Treat disaster recovery and business continuity as "mission critical" for cost and staff allocations
Establish metrics for the process and timing of recovery events
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