INCIDENT HANDLING AND RESPONSE

Scenario:

Assume that you have been hired to provide security consultant service to a medium veterinary practice (300 employees) to help them prepare a Contingency Planning (CP) document. They have 5 buildings clustered together in a campus type setting. This veterinary practice provides hospital type services for over 100 beds, they are usually filled to capacity. Not to mention, routine appointments on a daily basis. They are known to have frequent tornados touch down in the immediate area. Incident response (IR), one of the elements of CP, focuses its efforts on detecting and evaluating the severity of emergining unexpected events.

Research Paper (4 pages, APA format)

You are now in the phase of developing a business continuity plan (BCP) for the same veterinary practice. Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP. Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations. Detail out the Site Resumption Strategy and the time needed to become fully operational. Provide summary level budget information for the site resumption strategies you did not choose and defend your recommendation.