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What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? What Must it Include?

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Category: Cybersecurity PRISM
A disaster recovery plan involves policies, tools, and procedures to recover a digital system’s infrastructure after a natural disaster or any variety of data breach occurs.

 

 

A thorough disaster recovery plan should include: 

  1. A simplified overview of the plan
  2. Contact information for key personnel and the disaster recovery team members
  3. Descriptions of the emergency response actions
  4. A diagram of the IT network and the recovery site, including instructions on how to get to the site
  5. Identification of critical IT assets
  6. Determination of the maximum outage time, including the recovery point objective (RPO) and the recovery time objective (RTO)
  7. A list of your company’s softwares, license keys, and systems
  8. A summary of your insurance coverage
  9. Proposals for dealing with financial and legal issues, as well as media outreach
  10. When considering proactive vs reactive cyber security, it's important not to neglect your disaster recovery plan as a critical reactive strategy, like the plan shown here.
Having a recovery plan in place requires your recovery team members to be familiar with and aware of these protocols. It will also be important to update this plan as your IT infrastructure and staff changes or you gain new insights from experiencing disasters.
 
Ultimately, a disaster recovery plan will give your company the chance to act quickly and efficiently in the case that a reactive cyber security approach is necessary.

Some types of disasters that organisations can plan for include:

  • Application failure
  • Communication failure
  • Data centre disaster
  • Building disaster
  • Citywide disaster
  • Regional disaster
  • National disaster
  • Multinational disaster

 

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