Disaster Recovery Plan:
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).
Business Continuity Plan:
A business continuity plan is a document that contains important information that your company or organization needs to stay running in event of an incident. “is specifically designed to get the organization's most critical services up and running as quickly as possible in order to enable the continued operation of the organization”
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Disaster recovery saves data so that your organization is able to recover from a disaster. Why’ll business continuity is a completely different process it allows your organization to continue business during a disaster. In layman terms you can still access your organizations data with little to no downtime.
Let’s say your brick-and-mortar location loses power, or the buildings is destroyed. I think that any business that is internet-based that store electronic data, customer files, and documents needs a disaster recovery plan in place. With a recovery plan in place you have all the necessary tools to rebuild your business. Snedaker, wrote that some business sees a recovery plan as an inconvenience they might even be able to tolerate a system outage, but “every business that relies on technology wants to avoid having to conduct business without that technology” (Snedaker, 2013). Even though this medium size company may have not run into issues in the past a disaster can strike sometime without warning. The attitude some small businesses have about a recovery plan is dangerous and counter-productive. So having a plan in place will not hurt the company, but only make it better
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They had a power surge in his office that blew out the primary server. The chief executive of Golden Box said. “If we hadn’t had that safety net in place, I hate to even think about where we’d be right now” (Walzer, 2009).
John Motazedi, CEO of SNC Squared, stood in lot full of debris which once was his office building a tornado had just ripped through the town of Joplin, Missouri. Mr. Motazedi said within 5 hours after the tornado his IT services was back up and running it was due to the companies ten-page disaster recovery plan. The data backup was stored offsite in Mr. Motazedi’s basement. It only took 72 hours for SNC Squared to come back online which was very important to the business because most of their clients are doctors who needed to access their patient’s records. First, I think that most companies have to stop looking at disaster recovery plan as a cost and view it as an investment with a positive return. Companies should analyze their return on investment, by figuring out the cost of an unprotected system downtime versus a protected system downtime and then divide that by the hourly\recovery. Plus, you have to figure in the total personal hours lost and the cost of lost
Both man-made and natural disasters are often devastating, resource draining and disruptive. Having a basic plan ready for these types of disaster events is key to the success of executing and implementing, as well as assessing the aftermath. There are many different ways to create an emergency operations plan (EOP) to encompass a natural and/or man-made disaster, including following the six stage planning process, collection of information, and identification of threats and hazards. The most important aspect of the US emergency management system in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to man-made and natural disasters is the creation, implementation and assessment of a community’s EOP.
After a disaster hits, it takes a long time for the local and state government to regain its basic functions and to draft redevelopment plans (Olshansky et al., 2008). With malfunctioning government, it is hard to start the recovery process promptly and citizens who are in need of immense amount of economic and social support suffer from lack of resources and public services.
Contingency plan-A rapid response unit to evacuate all individual on board and the implementation of safety procedure e.g. life jackets for each individual.
Everyday risks present themselves in various workplaces through a variety of situations. Risk managers have been set in place to establish rules and guidelines by which employees are to follow. Any risk manager would agree that programs are set into place to reduce exposure risks, and provide a safe working environment. The elimination of undesirable outcomes in an emergency setting is critical and should not be taken lightly. Medical facility holds the key to important protocols and needs to work closely with risk management in order to instill cooperation.
The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) serves as an effective and efficient facility for coordinating emergency response efforts. An EOC may serve in a number of uses including operations, training, meetings but its primary use is for the coordination of emergency response. An EOC is the physical location where an organization comes together during an emergency. The Emergency Operations Center may alternately be called the command center, the situation room, war room, the crisis management center, or another similar term. Regardless of the term, this is where the coordination of information and resources takes place. The EOC is not an incident command post; rather, it is the operations center where coordination and management decisions are facilitated (Eastern Michigan University, 2010). A fully capable emergency operations facility is an essential element of a comprehensive emergency management system and a necessity to ensure continuity of operations at Clemson
In the event that the facilities are damaged at the White house or information technologies are disrupted, all business will be impacted creating a possible impact to national security. The recovery strategies are the White House alternate means to restoring normal operations to a minimum acceptable level. It is the responsibility of the White House Security staff to ensure that following a disruption of services that the recovery time be minimized if at all
Is it practical to not have a backup plan for your business? It could mean taking a boring nine-to-five job after failing a new venture. Recovering from a disaster and planning be the continuation of your business is not something that is only done one time either. It is continuous. A backup plan is only as good as your ability to recover from the downfall. Some people may use the phrase “Plan B” in our personal lives, but it is important to have a back-up plan when it comes to business. In corporate America, this is known as a business contingency plan (BCP). The planning process for this should take an “all hazards”
I certainly agree with your views on Verizon and being a corporation that keeps disaster preparedness as the forefront. The disaster recovery requisite for corporations like Verizon and other public service providers in the time of calamity is imperative for first responders, government agencies and other nonprofit organizations to provide the critical aide needed in the aftermath of a catastrophe (PR, 2014).
The size of the business which is being exposed to the disaster should also be considered. An understanding of which components are vital to the company’s day to day operations and which components are needed less and could be replaced later. Depending on the size of the company and what type of work is performed and whether the work takes place in an office environment or on the road or a home in a home office. There are options available where a company will make plans for you and provide a work place environment in the event that the office is unavailable for use. This however adds cost so should only be considered in the cases where the cost for the service is less than the cost would be to make plans
Many hospitals and large healthcare organizations are competitive and are now leaning on EHR systems to help keep competitive. With the intensity of competition having a defensive strategy in place when a disaster occurs will help decrease loss revenue and promote a seamless transition of quality care in a disaster (book). On average downtime for a physician will cost $488 per hour. A large health care organization like a hospital that has a lot of physicians employed would be financially devastated by downtime loss (Brazelton & Lyons, 2016). Many healthcare organizations (especially hospitals) are not making enough revenue to cover their operational costs. Therefore, when a disaster occurs or not having a backup recovery system can negatively
Conclusion Overall, the consequences of not having a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan can become costly in the event of a disaster. Most companies will find themselves in financial disarray when having to rebuild and/or replace any portions of the IT infrastructure that were destroyed during a disaster event. Hence, companies invest in insurance to cover such costs; however, there must be a balance because even with insurance an organization may still incur high expenses. Having a good disaster recovery and business continuity plan will keep your company up and running through any kind of interruptions such as power failures, IT system crashes, natural or man-made disasters, supply chain/vendor problems and more.
Incident response the assessment of the ability to organize and respond to any disasters, terrorist attack or security breach. Determine how a disaster is handle if it was man made. Identify if there is an updated date disaster plan available and are the step followed to handle the disaster. If the disaster is not adequately handle or if an updated disaster plan is not available, correct all areas and repeat an incident response during the next quarter. Incident response prepares for all emergences be it a disaster, cyber-attack or terrorist attack.
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It is important to identify the part of the business that will be critical elements that need to be restored quickly in order to resume business operations (Pinta, 2011). The plan should in qualitative and quantitative information so all potential threats to business operation stoppages are addressed accordingly. Since hurricanes are unpredictable in nature it is important for the planning phase to include all possible scenarios for financial losses. This includes loss of employees from injuries and the workers compensation claims to actual loss of inventory and building damages. The qualitative loss include notification of employee families about the safety of their loved ones and the communication with customers about how long the business will be closed.
The increase in unpredictable natural disasters events for a decade has led to put the disaster preparedness as a central issue in disaster management. Disaster preparedness reduces the risk of loss lives and injuries and increases a capacity for coping when hazard occurs. Considering the value of the preparatory behavior, governments, local, national and international institutions and non-government organizations made some efforts in promoting disaster preparedness. However, although a number of resources have been expended in an effort to promote behavioural preparedness, a common finding in research on natural disaster is that people fail to take preparation for such disaster events (Paton, 2005; Shaw 2004; Spittal, et.al, 2005; Tierney, 1993; Kenny, 2009; Kapucu, 2008; Coppola and Maloney, 2009). For example, the fact that nearly 91% of Americans live in a moderate to high risk of natural disasters, only 16% take a preparation for natural disaster (Ripley, 2006).