Disaster Recovery

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Introduction
Disaster recovery is an area of security planning responsible for protecting an organization from any significant negative events (Whitman & Mattord, 2012).
Significant negative events that may affect a business include equipment failure, cyber-attacks, and natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
During the process of disaster recovery, crisis management practice is followed so as to control the situation and minimize the risk level.
Business continuity refers to the process and procedures that an organization must enact so as to make sure that mission-critical business functions continue during and after a disaster (Whitman & Mattord, 2012).
The emphasis of business continuity is more on maintain the business operations. …show more content…

A disaster recovery plan allows an organization maintain and quickly recommence mission-critical functions during, and after disaster.
Importance of disaster recovery plan
It offers the prevention measures to be taken by an organization against a potential disaster.
It offers the measures of detection to be used by an organization to access all the levels of threat presented by a disaster.
It offers the measures to be taken by an organization to correct issues that have been caused by the exposure to the disaster.
It stipulates how an organization will prepare for a disaster, what their response will be, and the steps to be taken to ensure that all the business operations have been restored.
It describes all the necessary steps that are involved in the planning and adapting of a potential disaster providing a road map for restoring operations and for minimizing the long-term negative impacts of the disaster (Preston, 2009).
What should be included in a Disaster Recovery plan?
Backup and storage of data in a place that can be accessed from anywhere as long as there is internet

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