Disaster Recovery Plan
The majority of the administrative elements and many of the academic programs are heavily dependent and integrated with data processing to the extent that continued operation without data processing would require extensive alteration in methods of doing business. In the event that data processing services are interrupted for any extensive period of time, it is necessary that the University have a plan for continuing operations and reestablishing automated data processing.
A disaster recovery plan is a written contingency plan for responding to a disaster which has disrupted the data processing facilities. Its purpose is to provide a general guide based upon preplanned actions which will reduce decision making during the recovery process and enable resumption of normal operations in the most cost effective manner. The plan includes but is not limited to the following:
a disaster project team with a list of basic responsibilities for the team members,
a list of offices and programs in order of assessed critical dependence upon automated data processing (ADP),
risk assessment of types of disasters,
recovery priorities and operations,
requirements analysis,
plan update criteria and review schedule,
hardware and software inventory,
support agreements with agencies and vendors.
The planning is both a positive management tool and is required by Texas State Law.
Since the threat of hurricane is the single most risk to our campus, the University Hurricane Plan will take precedence where any conflict might arise with this plan or methodologies.
The Assistant Vice President for Technology is responsible for preparation of the preliminary disaster recovery plan. The Administrative Council will review the plan for the purpose of acceptance as University policy and recommend approval or recommend appropriate changes required for approval. The President, by law, is the authority responsible for disaster recovery planning.
Each office that might be impacted by an extended outage is required to assign a representative to the University ADP disaster recovery team. The representative will be the
trainer/liaison between the recovery and planning team, and the office or department. Each office is encouraged to prepare an operation methodology plan for its own needs should automated resources be unavailable for more than two days or during critical events.
Project Team
The Project Team consists of a Computer Center, Microcomputer Services, Media Services, Electronic Maintenance staff, and a representative from each critical department and Physical Plant. The project team is divided into the following sub-elements: Damage Assessment, Systems and Applications Software, Operations, and a Management Group.
The Damage Assessment Team is led by the ADP Manager of the Computer Center (backup leader is Network Manager).
disaster and who is to preform those steps. With a clear, documented disaster recovery plan in place the risk from a disaster can be minimized. While there is no way to plan for every disaster that could happen, the likely disaster can be planned for and the risk minimize as much as possible. The disaster recovery plan is the documented efforts that IT will perform to minimize the risk of catastrophic failure. This document is a requirement for any IT audit that is performed on the Clinica Tepeyac information systems department.
Also, known as a contingency plan is a precautionary measure that an organization takes to recover from a disaster. This precautionary plan helps your organization minimize the effects of a disaster so that your organization can get back too normal. “the overall program includes the entire spectrum of activities used to recover from an incident.” (Whitman, 2014).
ABC University has an obligation to protect and provide for students, faculty, staff, and all others on its campus in the event of a major interruption to the operations of the university. These obligations does not stop at the university level. Each Department on campus is further responsible to be able to meet its individual obligations. These responsibilities include the capacity to provide the services in order to ensure the essential functions critical to the operations of the university. Should an event or disaster occur that interrupts the normal operations each department shall be ready to respond and minimize the impact to the university. Failure to have a comprehensive continuity plan could possibly lead to interrupti...
This Plan establishes a framework for the management and coordination of actions to be taken by local government and certain private organizations preparing for and responding to emergencies and disasters that threaten Howard County.
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In an emergency situation, securing data is more important than securing money that’s in the building. You can easily recover money lost. But if it’s important data you’ve lost, it may be hard for you to get it back. And the consequences to this can cost you your business. To ensure you have your data protected, it is important to have backup and disaster recovery planning. This will allow your business to make the necessary preparations to protect your company’s most valuable assets in times of emergency situations.
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