Disaster Recovery Plan Template Business Continuity

DRP BCP Template

ISO 27000, SOX, PCI-DSS & HIPAA Compliant

The Standard for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Over 3,000 Companies World Wide have chosen this DRP/BCP Template

 

     

In most organizations, DR is the quintessential complex, unfamiliar task. Disasters happen so rarely that recovery operations are the opposite of routine. What's more the myriad, interconnected data, application and other resources that must be recovered after a disaster make recovery an exceptionally difficult and error-prone effort. Even if you have never built a DR plan before, you can achieve great results. Just follow the DR Template that Janco has created and you will have a functioning plan before you know it.

All Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery plans need to encompass how employees will communicate, where they will go and how they will keep doing their jobs. The details can vary greatly, depending on the size and scope of a company and the way it does business. For some businesses, issues such as supply chain logistics are most crucial and are the focus on the plan. For others, information technology may play a more pivotal role, and the Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery plan may have more of a focus on systems recovery.

But the critical point is that neither element can be ignored, and physical, IT and human resources plans cannot be developed in isolation from each other. (In this regard, Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery has much in common with security convergence.) At its heart, Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery is about constant communication.

Janco's Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is that tool which can be used as a Disaster Planning template for any size of enterprise. The Template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA compliant. The template comes as both a Word document and a static fully indexed PDF document. The DRP/BCP Template includes:

• Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Template (WORD and PDF)
• Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
• Work Plan
• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program
• Pandemic Planning Checklist
• Incident Communication Plan and Policy

Preparation for Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity in light of SOX has two primary parts. The first is putting systems in place to completely protect all financial and other data required to meet the reporting regulations and to archive the data to meet future requests for clarification of those reports. The second is to clearly and expressly document all these procedures so that in the event of a SOX audit, the auditors clearly see that the DRP exists and will appropriately protect the data.

The Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity Template can be acquired in the following ways:

 

DRP BCP Template General Description

The DRP template is over 200 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement.  The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:

• Plan Introduction
• Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix
• DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - DRP / BCP checklist
• Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.
• Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points.
• Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format
• Plan Administration Process
• Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points
• Job Descriptions
  • Disaster Recovery Manager
  • Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Pandemic Coordinator
• Work Plan to modify and implement the template. Included is a list of deliverables for each task. (Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment)

There is a extensive section that shows how a full test of the DRP can be conducted.  It includes

• Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities
• Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan
• Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis
• Training of the Disaster Recovery Team
• Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan
• Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests
• Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

Click on the link below to get the DRP/BC sample pages now and make it part of your disaster recovery toolkit.

Backup Matrix - Sample from Template

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Testimonials

Testimonial - Dave Baker - City of Hamilton -I have found the DRP template invaluable!

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Launch Testing Lab -The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care -I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation -We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.

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This template is not for resale or re-distribution - Disaster Plan Template, Disaster Recovery Planning Template Disaster Recovery Template, Disaster Recovery

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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity News

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DRP versus BCP

May 17th, 2012

Disaster recovery planning is one of the most important jobs of the IT professional. It includes working with upper management and winning the cooperation of all departments to make a working recovery plan. The two main parts are the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). These have to go hand-in-hand procedurally. The BCP focuses more on the schedule and timing of the DRP, so that in the event of a disaster the business can function normally. The three stages of a DRP are Prevent, Detect and Correct.

 

A disaster recovery is a response to a declared disaster or a regional disaster. It is the restoration or recovery of an entire agent computer. A disaster recovery plan describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters.  

 

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Disaster Recovery budgets remain stable

April 29th, 2012

A report into business continuity and disaster recovery budgets finds:

• According to a IT budget survey, 32 percent of enterprises had planned to increase spending on business continuity and disaster recovery by at least 5 percent in 2011. The reality is that budgets have stayed constant rather than increased as anticipated.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery budgets in 2011 have been an average of six percent of IT operating and capital budgets.
• The likely culprit in stalled business continuity and disaster recovery spending is the continuing economic uncertainty. Even in the best of economic times, it's difficult to build the business case for an initiative such as business continuity that's primarily about cost avoidance rather than return on investment. In tough economic times, it's almost impossible.

 

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Business Continuity Planning

April 13th, 2012

Horizon scanning is essential to avoid surprises in business continuity planning, but identifying the most likely thing to bite you next is tricky.

Looking beyond the imminent plannin risks contained in in every day events the top 3 worries are:

• Supply Chain - Will an economic or political crisis mean disruption to this as a result of protest and civil unrest or even secession from monetary union?
• Severe weather - Most enterprises are geared up for "average" weather. As we see extremes of drought, cold and storm will the strain on the infrastructure become a major cause of business interruptions?
• Social Media - Increasingly organizations believe that these are essential to their businesses, yet they are provided externally, funded through advertising and beyond the control of the organization. How can we provide resilience/continuity for these? Should we?
  

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Social media a disaster planning tools

April 2nd, 2012

Government agencies are turning to social media technology to manage disasters and improve public safety.

A growing number of agencies are tapping into Facebook and Twitter to monitor events and provide near real-time notifications. And some are now taking social media a step further by communicating internally or sharing information and comments across offices or agencies.

A September Congressional Research Service report, Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations, noted that social media already plays an important role in disasters, but the use of the technology for emergency management is growing.

In Fort Worth and Tarrant County in Texas, for instance, a joint emergency operations center has switched on social media tools that improve communication across dozens of agencies and departments throughout the state. Police, firefighters, healthcare providers and others use push-to-talk radio, cellular telephony, and text messaging (including text documents and file sharing) to interact with an IP telephony infrastructure located in a response center. This allows teams to coordinate immediate responses, regardless of the underlying communications technology.

• CIO IT Infrastructure Policy PDF (All of the policies below which come as individual MS Word files)
• Backup and Backup Retention Policy
• Blog and Personal Web Site Policy (Includes electronic Blog Compliance Agreement Form)
• BYOD Access and Use Policy (Includes electronic BYOD Access and Use Agreement Form)
• Incident Communication Plan Policy (Updated to include social networks as a communication path)
• Internet, e-Mail, Social Networking, Mobile Device, Electronic Communications, and Record Retention Policy (Includes 5 electronic forms to aid in the quick deployment of this policy)
• Mobile Device Access and Use Policy
• Patch Management Policy
• Outsourcing Policy
• Record Management, Retention, and Destruction Policy
• Sensitive Information Policy (HIPAA Compliant and includes electronic Sensitive Information Policy Compliance Agreement Form)
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) Policy Template with Metrics
• Social Networking Policy (includes electronic form)
• Telecommuting Policy (includes 3 electronic forms to help to effecively manage work at home staff)
• Travel and Off-Site Meeting Policy
• IT Infrastructure Forms

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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Basics

March 1st, 2012

The basics of a Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan are defined in the Janco Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template. They are:

• Develop the contingency planning policy statement. A formal department or agency policy provides the authority and guidance necessary to develop an effective contingency plan.
• Conduct the business impact analysis (BIA). The BIA helps to identify and prioritize critical IT systems and components.
• Identify preventive controls. Measures taken to reduce the effects of system disruptions can increase system availability and reduce contingency life cycle costs.
• Develop recovery strategies. Thorough recovery strategies ensure that the system may be recovered quickly and effectively following a disruption.
• Develop an IT contingency plan. The contingency plan should contain detailed guidance and procedures for restoring a damaged system.
• Plan testing and training exercises. Testing the plan identifies planning gaps, whereas training prepares recovery personnel for plan activation; both activities improve plan effectiveness and overall agency preparedness.
• Plan maintenance. The plan should be a living document that is updated regularly to remain current with system enhancements.

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