Incident Response Plan

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HOW INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN DIFFER FROM DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN

Both incident response plan and disaster recovery plan are critical part of organization for business continuity if any incident occurs.
INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN:
Incident response plan is a approach where known or unknown incidents are identified and managed which helps the organization in minimizing the affect, limiting the recovery time and mitigating the vulnerabilities following the incident.
Responding immediately to an incident makes the organization no to fall under disaster.
There are six key phases of incident response plan:
• PREPARATION: the key phase where to plan for immediate responses, policies and the team which will work on incident.
• IDENTIFICATION: identifying …show more content…

DISASTER RECOVERY:
Disaster recovery is a approach where it helps the organization to recover from the disaster allowing to resume the critical operations needed to continue the business. Disaster recovery is approached after the incident is not handled or managed appropriately in incident response and causing serious problem to organization infrastructure.
The two measurements in disaster recovery are recovery point objective(rpo)and recovery time objective(rto)
• RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE: the maximum number of files that are need to be restored from the backup storage in order to continue as normal following disaster.
• RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVE: the maximum time needed to restore the files from the backup storage in order to continue as normal following disaster.
The steps in disaster recovery plan:
• Plan for policies for recovery, team that will handle the process of disaster recovery and main goals of recovery.
• Knowing the emergency responses that need to be taken following disaster
• Map of the it network and recovery site and steps that are required to reach recovery site.
• Knowing the critical assets and maximum outage time. Responding

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