10 Commandments of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity that
guarantee success
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the 10 commandments of disaster recovery and business contunity are the
keys to a successful planning and execution of those plans.
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single points of failure: A single point of failure in a critical
component can disrupt well engineered redundancies and resilience in the
rest of a system.
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updated notification trees: A cohesive communication process is
required to ensure the disaster recovery business continuity plan will
work.
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aware of current events: Understand what is happening around the
enterprise know if there is a chance for a weather, sporting or political
event that can impact the enterprises operations.
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for worst-case scenarios: Downtime can have many causes, including
operator error, component failure, software failure, and planned downtime as
well as building- or city-level disasters. Organizations should be sure that
their disaster recovery plans account for even worst-case scenarios.
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document recovery processes: Documentation is critical to the
success of a disaster recovery program. Organizations should write and
maintain clear, concise, detailed steps for failover so that secondary staff
members can manage a failover should primary staff members be
unavailable.
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information Have a printed copy available: In a crisis situation,
a timely response can be critical. Centralizing disaster recovery
information in one place, such as a Microsoft Office SharePoint® system or
portal or
cloud, helps
avoid the need to hunt for documentation, which can compound a crisis.
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test plans and scripts:
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created and followed step-by-step to help ensure accurate testing. These
plans and scripts should include integration testing— silo testing alone
does not accurately reflect multiple applications going down
simultaneously.
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regularly: Organizations should take advantages of opportunities
for disaster recovery testing such as new releases, code changes, or
upgrades. At a minimum, each application should be retested every year.
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comprehensive recovery and business continuity test: Organizations
should practice their master recovery plans, not just application failover.
For example, staff members need to know where to report if a disaster
occurs, critical conference bridges should be set up in advance, a command
center should be identified, and secondary staff resources should be
assigned in case the event stretches over multiple days. In environments
with many applications, IT staff should be aware of which applications
should be recovered first and in what order. The plan should not assume that
there will be enough resources to bring everything back up at the same
time.
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metrics and create score cards scores: Organizations should
maintain scorecards on the disaster recovery compliance of each application,
as well as who is testing and when. Maintaining scorecards generally helps
increase audit scores.
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