Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning, Backup, and Recovery
An important strategy for organizations is to be prepared for any eventuality. A critical element in any security system is a business continuity plan, also known as a disaster recovery plan.
Business continuity is the chain of events linking planning to protection and recovery. The purpose of the business continuity plan is to keep the business operating after a disaster occurs. The plan prepares for, reacts to, and recovers from events that affect the security of information assets, and the subsequent restoration to normal business operations. The plan ensures that critical business functions continue.
In any of major disaster, organizations can employ several strategies for business …show more content…
A hot site duplicates computing resources, peripherals, telephone systems, applications, and work stations.
Hot sites are fully staffed and include all the equipment, software, and communications capabilities of a primary location. The hot site can take over operations within an hour and some hot sites can take over instantaneously. This is the most expensive of the three types of sites, but it provides the most effective disaster recovery solution.
A warm site provides many of the same services and options as the hot site. However, a warm site typically does not include the actual applications the company needs. A warm site does include computing equipment such as servers, but it often does not include user work stations
Warm sites are a compromise between hot sites and cold sites. Hot sites are too expensive for most organizations and cold sites often take too long for full operation. Instead, the organization can identify what to stage at the warm site based on their needs. For example, the organization can stage some or all of the equipment at the warm site. They can keep the systems powered on, or power them on when needed. They can have copies of data there, or copy the data after a …show more content…
If the organization cannot afford to have any downtime, they have a similar setup at the primary site as well as the DR site. This includes not only servers, applications and databases, but also personnel, vendors and business teams. This is a 'hot' backup. Business as usual image is maintained.
If the organization can afford a certain amount of downtime, the concepts of warm and cold come into play. A warm site is where you have certain amount of systems, applications and databases (maybe not up-to-date). It is possible to have them up and running in a few hours.
A cold site is where the premises and basic connectivity and infrastructure are provided. It may take a few days to get this up and running.
Coming to the main question of 'which strategy to
An important strategy for organizations is to be prepared for any eventuality. A critical element in any security system is a business continuity plan, also known as a disaster recovery plan.
Business continuity is the chain of events linking planning to protection and recovery. The purpose of the business continuity plan is to keep the business operating after a disaster occurs. The plan prepares for, reacts to, and recovers from events that affect the security of information assets, and the subsequent restoration to normal business operations. The plan ensures that critical business functions continue.
In any of major disaster, organizations can employ several strategies for business …show more content…
A hot site duplicates computing resources, peripherals, telephone systems, applications, and work stations.
Hot sites are fully staffed and include all the equipment, software, and communications capabilities of a primary location. The hot site can take over operations within an hour and some hot sites can take over instantaneously. This is the most expensive of the three types of sites, but it provides the most effective disaster recovery solution.
A warm site provides many of the same services and options as the hot site. However, a warm site typically does not include the actual applications the company needs. A warm site does include computing equipment such as servers, but it often does not include user work stations
Warm sites are a compromise between hot sites and cold sites. Hot sites are too expensive for most organizations and cold sites often take too long for full operation. Instead, the organization can identify what to stage at the warm site based on their needs. For example, the organization can stage some or all of the equipment at the warm site. They can keep the systems powered on, or power them on when needed. They can have copies of data there, or copy the data after a …show more content…
If the organization cannot afford to have any downtime, they have a similar setup at the primary site as well as the DR site. This includes not only servers, applications and databases, but also personnel, vendors and business teams. This is a 'hot' backup. Business as usual image is maintained.
If the organization can afford a certain amount of downtime, the concepts of warm and cold come into play. A warm site is where you have certain amount of systems, applications and databases (maybe not up-to-date). It is possible to have them up and running in a few hours.
A cold site is where the premises and basic connectivity and infrastructure are provided. It may take a few days to get this up and running.
Coming to the main question of 'which strategy to