This Business Continuity Plan for the SanGrafix is intended to serve as the fundamental Source for the information, goals, and procedures that would be necessary to help in the management’s decision-making process and its timely response to any turbulent or sustaining interruption of the department's normal business activities and services.
In terms of personnel and financial resources, the information tasks and procedures detailed in this plan represent the SanGrafix management’s demonstrated commitment to response, resumption, recovery, and restoration planning.
A Continuity Plan is not a one-time commitment and is not a project with an established start and end date. Instead, a Continuity Plan is an on-going, funded business
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activity budgeted to provide resources required to: • Perform activities required to construct plans • Train and retrain employees • Develop and revise policies and standards as the department changes • Exercise strategies, procedures, team and resources requirements • Re-exercise unattained exercise objectives • Report on-going continuity planning to senior management • Research processes and technologies to improve resumption and recovery efficiency • Perform plan maintenance activities PURPOSE: The purpose of this plan is to enable the sustained execution of mission critical processes and information technology systems for SanGrafix in the event of an extraordinary event that causes these systems to fail minimum production requirements. The SanGrafix Contingency Plan will assess the needs and requirements so that SanGrafix may be prepared to respond to the event in order to efficiently regain operation of the systems that are made inoperable from the event. PLAN INFORMATION The Continuity Plan contains information in two parts related to the frequency of updates required. The first part contains the plan’s static information (i.e. the information that will remain constant and will not be subject to frequent revisions). The second part contains the plan’s dynamic information (i.e. the information that must be maintained regularly to ensure that the plan remains viable and in a constant state of readiness). This dynamic information is viewed as the action plan. The action plan should be considered a living document and will always require continuing review and modification in order to keep up with the changing SanGrafix environment. The static information part of the Continuity Plan is contained in a MS-Word file and printed as part of this document. This static information should be read and understood by all employees, users, and administrators of the SanGrafix, or at least by those individuals who are involved in any phase of business response, resumption, recovery, or restoration. The dynamic information resides in the database of the and will be printed as output for the appendixes of this document. By using the database, dynamic information that is vital to the survival of the SanGrafix will be easy to manage and update. The web-enabled database is designed for maintenance of personnel contact lists, emergency procedures, and technical components. It is already in operation for SanGrafix agencies. For ease of use and reference, the static and dynamic information is maintained separately. While it is necessary to be familiar with the static information during resumption, it should not be necessary to read that information at the time of the event. The completed action plan of dynamic information provides all of the necessary lists, tasks, and reports used for response, resumption, or recovery. PLAN OVERVIEW: DIRECTIVES AND OBJECTIVES: The development of the SanGrafix Continuity Plan is required by executive decisions and to meet regulatory mandates.
The SanGrafix management must maintain an information assurance infrastructure that will ensure that its information resources maintain availability, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation of its data. Furthermore, SanGrafix management must ensure their strategic information resources management capabilities. Therefore, the SanGrafix Continuity Plan is being developed in accordance with the following executive decisions, regulatory mandates, provisions, and directives:
• The organization should develop a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan.
• A formal risk assessment should be undertaken in order to determine the requirements for the Business Continuity Plan.
• The Business Continuity Plan should cover all essential and critical business activities.
• The Business Continuity Plan should be periodically tested in a simulated environment to ensure that it can be implemented in emergency situations and that the management and staff understand how it is to be executed.
• All staff must be made aware of the Business Continuity Plan and their own respective
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roles. • The Business Continuity Plan is to be kept up to date to take into account changing circumstance The primary focus of a continuity plan revolves around the protection of the two most important assets of any organization: personnel and data.
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objectives: • Minimize the number of decisions which must be made during a continuity • Identify the resources needed to execute the actions defined by this plan • Identify actions to be undertaken by pre-designated teams • Identify critical data in conjunction with customers that will be recovered during the Hot Site phase of recovery operations • Define the process for testing and maintaining this plan and training for continuity teams • To streamline the reporting of resumption and recovery progress between the teams and management of each system. president Figure 3-1 Continuity Planning Organizational Chart CRITICAL ISSUES POWER: The technology director should work to develop power requirements necessary to provide uninterrupted service for the data center. After the determination of power requirements has been developed for the continuous operability of the the should follow the standard procurement process
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