23.4 Disaster Recovery Planning and Business ...


When you want to establish a business, you need to plan well especially for threats such as power shortages, earthquakes, or ant attacks that will prevent you information system from operating.
Disaster recovery planning design plans to restore computing and communication services after being disrupted. Disaster recovery plans mainly work to keep systems up and run, like which files need to back up and the maintenance of back up computer systems or disaster recovery services.
Business continuity planning helps the company on how it can restore business operation after a disaster strikes.
The business continuity plan determines which business processes are critical and determines action plans to handle mission-critical functions if systems go down.
For example, Deutsche Bank that provides investment banking and asset management services in 74 different countries has a well-developed business continuity plan that it continually updates and refines.
It maintains full-time teams in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, India, and Australia to coordinate plans addressing loss of facilities, personnel, or critical systems so that the company can continue to operate when a catastrophic event occurs.
Deutsch Bank's plan distinguishes between processes critical for business survival and those critical to crisis support and is coordinated with the company's disaster recovery planning for its computer centers.

23.4 Disaster Recovery Planning and Business ...


Business managers and specialists of information technology must cooperate together to determine which systems are most critical to the company.
They must introduce a business impact analysis for identifying the most critical systems to firm and the impact a systems outage would have on the business.
When the business can survive with its systems down, it has a maximum amount of time that must be determined by management, in addition to which parts of the business must be restored.