There is no benefit derived on a daily basis from a disaster recovery plan, but at the same time such a plan requires resources to develop and maintain. The SANS template acknowledges this status for disaster recovery planning by defining a plan overview, purpose and scope.
The overview is an executive summary which states why the company has such a plan competitive advantage, business continuity and what is needed practical management support in spirit and actually. The purpose of the plan is often overlooked since, after all, everyone knows what they mean when they use a phrase like disaster recovery and, as keywords go, disaster recovery and business continuity sound like good ones.
However, a formal stated purpose tightens and formalizes what disaster recovery means to the company and gets stakeholder approval. The time to specify precisely what is covered, is not covered and what may need to be covered is before a disaster strikes; this is plan scope. Once these preliminary stages are addressed the SANS template gets into the substantive issues of policy. This means defining what is covered by the plan , who are the key people to execute the plan , where the company accesses emergency resources or prepares off-site backups, etc.
Policy compliance verifies that current processes are at minimum not in conflict with the plan; periodic audits certify this. Definitions and terms ensure stakeholder-wide agreement over terms and definition, which in turn means that one group says is clearly and accountably understood by another.
Planning for your company should at minimum consider and address these areas. For more information on making Global IP Networks a part of your disaster recovery planning, please contact us. Likewise, fallback employees in the event of localized disaster may be concerned with personal or family issues arising from a pandemic and may not be ideal selections in such a case.
A complete if scaled-down pandemic leadership team needs to be selected based on a key-role triage. How employees will be paid, and if they can work from home in the event of travel restrictions need to be considered, including whether there are systems in place to allow for this for example, available internet bandwidth. Emergency policies ideally scalable depending on pandemic severity may replace normal operating policies and permit working from home, using own devices or equipment, and permitting employees to bring children to work.
None of these policies are fixed nor appropriate for every company, but they are questions which every company should consider during plan development. Compliance and monitoring regarding such a plan concerns making sure that the policy is kept up to date and, to the degree reasonable, practiced and tested on a smaller scale. For more information on how Global IP Networks can be a valuable part of your business continuity plan, please contact us.
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