Application Design Audit

The Business Continuity Plan offering is a customized document set and training program that provides a methodology so that the customer understands how to provide services that maintain the constant availability of critical IT business processes and information across the entire enterprise. This offering is for customers who desire a Business Continuity plan set customized for their environment.

Our Disaster Recovery Institute International certified consults create the Business Continuity Plan based on the "NIST 800-34" document "Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems" which consists of the following functional areas:

Emergency Management: Provides the response procedures for occupants of a facility in the event of a situation posing a potential threat to the health and safety of personnel, the environment, or property.

Executive Emergency Management Team (EEMT): A group of executives that directs response, recovery and resumption efforts. Specifically, the EERT will decision whether a specific plan be executed, and resolve resource conflicts.

Crisis Communications: Includes procedures for disseminating status reports to personnel and designates specific individuals as the only authority for answering questions from the public regarding disaster response.

Damage Assessment Plan: Includes procedures to provide sufficient information to the EEMT so that a decision can be reached to execute the Recovery/Resumption Plan for each business process in whole or in part.

Disaster Recovery: Immediate and temporary restoration of computing and network operations after a natural or manmade disaster within defined timeframes. The plan focuses on restoring an organizations essential infrastructure and support functions at an alternate site.

Resumption: Provide a means to move from the Recovery Phase back to complete normalcy. Strategies for returning to the original site and a new site must be included.

Preventative Controls: Outage impacts may be mitigated or eliminated through preventive measures that deter, detect, and/or reduce impacts to the system. Examples include:
  • Uninterruptible Power Supplies
  • Fire Suppression Systems
  • Offsite Storage of Backup Media
  • High Availability of Infrastructure


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