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  Disaster Recovery Planning TemplateSarbanes Oxley Compliance

DRP Template
Business Continuity

Sarbanes - Oxley / HIPAA / ISO 17799 Compliant

  

This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be used as a template for any enterprise.   Download instructions for the DRP are sent to you via e-mail.
 
The template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.  The complete package includes:
  • Disaster Recovery Planning Template
  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
  • Work Plan

  • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Audit Program 

Included in the template is Business Impact Questionnaire as well as a full Job Description for the DRP Manager.  The  PREMIUM Bundle contains 11 additional key job descriptions.

 

New with version (version history) are

  (Sarbanes Oxley Compliant):

  • Compliance with SOX, HIPAA, and ISO 17799

  • Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form

  • Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook

    • Quick Reference Guide

    • Team Alert List (Form)

    • DRP Team Responsibilities

    • DRP Team Checklist

    • Critical Function(s) Definition

    • Normal Business Hour Response Procedures

    • After Hours Response Procedures

    • DRP Location(s) Definition

    • DRP Recovery Procedures

    • Notification Procedures

    • Notification Call List (Form)

  • Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire

  • Vendor Phone List Form Updated

  • Key Customer Notification Form

  • Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form

  • Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form

Clients can also subscribe to Janco's DRP update service and receive all updates to the DRP document for 18 months* from the date of purchase. 

The DRP template is over 180 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 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 Description for Disaster Recovery Manager (3 pages long) - entire disaster recovery team job descriptions are available.

  • Work Plan to modify and implement the template.  Included is a list of deliverables for each task.

There is a extensive section that show 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

 

  

 

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

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Lauch Testing Lab - The DRP 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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 * Update service is for 12 months unless it is purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the Template.  Janco reserves the right to validate purchase of the customer was made for the template.

This template is not for resale or re-distribution - DRP Template Disaster Recovery Template

 

 

 

 

 

Minimun and Standard Power Protection for Workstations for DRP and BCP

DRP BCP Power RequirementsPersonal computers and remote servers often are damaged by subtle anomalies that users never see, such as sags, surges, spikes, brownouts, line noise, frequency variation, switching transients and harmonic distortion. A business on typical utility power is subjected to these hidden power problems every day and complete outages several times a year. Solutions that you should implement for all such equipment include:

  • Minimum - Surge suppressors address the power surges, but have no effect on the under-voltage and variance conditions that can erode equipment health over time or zap it in an instant.
  • Standard - Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPSs)  protect your IT systems by conditioning incoming power to smooth out the sags and spikes that are all too common on the grid and other primary sources of power Providing ride-through power to cover for sags or short-term outages (30 – 60 minutes, typically).
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Disaster planning, emergency preparedness, or business continuity

Disaster planning, emergency preparedness, or business continuity (and experts note that there are differences) -  the goals are ultimately the same:  to get an organization back up and running in the event of an interruption.  The problem causing the interruption could be one computer crashing or an entire network crashing.  Or it could be an electrical outage or the result of a terrorist activity.  The goal is to have some contingency plans in the event of a problem.  A disaster recovery plan exists to preserve the organization so that it can continue to offer its services. 

 

A disaster recovery plan is a users' guide - the documentation - for how to preserve an organization.  In order for a plan to be useful, it must be created before an interruption occurs.  Business continuity is disaster recovery.  Lost revenue is a driving force in business continuity.  The reason to do a recovery plan is essentially to keep the funding coming in and the services going, and the clients being served.

 

  • Emergency planning are those procedures and steps done immediately after an interruption to business.
  • Disaster recovery are the steps taken to restore some functions so that some level of services can be offered.
  • Business continuity is restoration planning, completing the full circle to get your organization back to where it was before an interruption.

In order to write your plan, you have to do some planning. This planning is the process that will get you to the step where you then commit your plan to paper - you canÂ’t write a plan until you do the preparation.  The most difficult thing is getting started; the second most difficult task is keeping the plan current.

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The Difference Between Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning Defined

Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) is the process by which you resume business after a disruptive event.  This typically means that you can get the enterprise computers, networks, and data base operational. The event might be something huge-like an earthquake or the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center-or something small, like malfunctioning software caused by a computer virus.

Given the human tendency to look on the bright side, many business executives are prone to ignoring "disaster recovery" because disaster seems an unlikely event. However Janco has found that over one third of all enterprises have had to activate their Disaster Plans in the last few years.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) suggests a more comprehensive approach to making sure you can keep the enterprise going and meet it business objectives. This goes beyond the enterprise computers, networks and data bases.  However, the two terms are married under the acronym DR/BC or DRP/BCP. At any rate, Disaster Recovery Planning and/or Business Continuity Planning facilitate how a company will keep functioning after a disruptive event until its normal facilities are restored. 

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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Scope

Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Scope

Recognizing the scope of the requirements, Janco suggests that you purchase the Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template  and the do the following:

  • Conduct a business impact assessment. This involved a crossfunctional team to evaluate the business requirements and tier data based on the importance to our business operations.
  • Protect data and applications. It was important to back up data frequently to ensure records are kept, so we needed to upgrade
    our backup equipment to a faster version to reduce the time it took to complete a backup cycle.
  • Review power and connectivity options. We needed to add uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) and connectivity for critical servers, network connections and selected personal computers to keep the most essential applications running in case of a power outage.
  • Document, test and update the disaster preparedness plan. Part of the Janco Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template plan needs you to include updated configuration diagrams of the hardware, software and network components to be used in the recovery. The plan also needed to include logistical details, such as travel to backup sites and spending authorization for emergency needs.
  • Consider telecommunications alternatives. Often taken for granted, telecommunications backup involving redundancy and alternatives needed to be in place - and in the case of spot outages, redundancy may be enough. For larger outages, alternative communications vehicles, including wireless phones, wireless data cards and satellite phones, had to be considered.
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Testing is Critical to Disaster Recovery Planning

Importance of testing is critical to the disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

All good disaster recovery and contingency plans start with having a good solid backup of data. Although systems and applications can be reinstalled and reconfigured, data cannot be rebuilt out of thin air. The key to having a good backup is to make sure the data is correct and can be successfully restored. This is not always as easy as it seems. One company had such an issue. Their backup administrator did not correctly follow procedures and when he thought he was doing a backup, he actually was not writing anything. When they tried to restore a database, they found out all the tapes were blank.

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