Company Current Plan
Robert Dunbar is a company that provides healthcare services to patients and manages the patient information. The company is worried about the disasters that have been happening of late. Almost all companies have experienced a disaster in the last 12 months, and all disasters have had a big budget averaging $2.2 million.
The company manager decides to call for a meeting for disaster preparedness. The company has a call center, which has to be considered in case of a disaster. The company has an offshore storage strategy, and there is a communication department.
The company has 24 person call center with customer warehouse which run on HP servers and has a back up installed. The company has a failover strategy that includes offshore facilities and hardware equipment.
From the digital forensic department, there is a backup strategy where data is locked and fireproof cabinet (Cook, 2015). The forensic section has incremental backups and weekly backup plan that backs up data once every month. The company currently does not have a high tolerant strategy.
The company has noted a weak recovery strategy, and the company wants to have an offsite backup strategy and needs to invest in an alternate site for data recovery (Lewis, 2015). The company needs a parallel call center and needs an emergency recovery site, network configuration equipment and developing a new call center operations although all these will come at extra costs.
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The company needs to have a backup plan for the company. The back-up plan will include an offshore facility. The company needs an emergency operation center and no alternative site procedures, which will require daily updating of data. In the current set up, the backup facility has a capacity of 30% with a very limited testing plan. The communication strategy also needs to be redefined. From the recovery deficit plan, the backup costs are too high.
Therefore, some items in the recovery plan will have to minimize while focusing on the best practices of data recovery. The following basic requirement though is required in the backup plan. One is a backup generator, without this massive data can be lost. The company also need to provide both hardware and software for big data storage (Lam, 2012).
An external company is required to help in data backup. The company should manage backup, provision of ups power banks, configuring equipment should a disaster occur, and the company should be entrusted with securing most sensitive data. The management should also be trained on data recovery steps that will be outlined in the data recovery plan. The training manual will be distributed to people who need it.
The following shows the steps to be followed by employees should such a disaster occur. Once a disaster occurs the recovery measures must be taken the members of the recovery team will respond in the following steps;
• Task of tasks for medium criticality systems
• Program for restoration of medium criticality systems
• Recovery measures necessary for low criticality systems
• Persistence of facilities jobs excellent/required at Most crucial Facility
References
Cook, J. (2015). A six-stage business continuity and disaster recovery planning cycle.S.A.M.Advanced Management Journal, 80(3), 23-33, 68, 2.
Lam, W. (2002). Ensuring business continuity. IT Professional Magazine, 4(3), 19-25.
Lewis, S. (2005). Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans - Things Overlooked. EDPACS 33(1), 19-20.
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