Project Part 2 Task 2
Project Part 2 Task 2: Business Continuity Plan
Ronald Horne
5/28/2015
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
The Business Continuity Plan is designed to prepare an organization to continue doing business when a disaster strikes. The BCP differs from the traditional disaster recovery plan in the fact that a BCP covers all aspects of the business and incorporates the DRP as part of it. The DRP focuses on restoring data and on information technology only.
BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
1.2 SCOPE AND BOUNDRIES The BCP will concentrate on the headquarters of DLIS. The Defense Logistics Information Service currently operates 25 file servers and manages a dozen different databases which incorporate all business functions including payroll with electronic funds transfer capability centered in Battle Creek Michigan. There should be a warm site in place at least between 100 to 200 miles away from this location.
1.3 ASSUMPTIONS AND PLANNING PRINCIPLES The BCP should include contingency plans to continue business in the event of physical damage sustained from a tornado or powerful thunderstorms as well as power outages associated with these natural disasters. In addition, plans should include contingencies for employees not being able to make it into work due to bad road conditions from winter storms or floods. Theoretically the longest that DLIS should have to operate under the BCP in most of these circumstances is 1 week before normal operations can be resumed. In the situation of a technical failure not due to a natural disaster, the normal operations should be resumed in less than a week. This includes situations of hardware failure of the servers or networking equipment, attacks from hackers and malicious software as well as denial of service (DoS/DDoS) attacks.
1.4 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION AND ARCHITECTURE
1.4.1 Overview The headquarters houses at least 50 servers which maintain a minimum of 12 different databases as well as the website. The
Ronald Horne
5/28/2015
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
The Business Continuity Plan is designed to prepare an organization to continue doing business when a disaster strikes. The BCP differs from the traditional disaster recovery plan in the fact that a BCP covers all aspects of the business and incorporates the DRP as part of it. The DRP focuses on restoring data and on information technology only.
BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
1.2 SCOPE AND BOUNDRIES The BCP will concentrate on the headquarters of DLIS. The Defense Logistics Information Service currently operates 25 file servers and manages a dozen different databases which incorporate all business functions including payroll with electronic funds transfer capability centered in Battle Creek Michigan. There should be a warm site in place at least between 100 to 200 miles away from this location.
1.3 ASSUMPTIONS AND PLANNING PRINCIPLES The BCP should include contingency plans to continue business in the event of physical damage sustained from a tornado or powerful thunderstorms as well as power outages associated with these natural disasters. In addition, plans should include contingencies for employees not being able to make it into work due to bad road conditions from winter storms or floods. Theoretically the longest that DLIS should have to operate under the BCP in most of these circumstances is 1 week before normal operations can be resumed. In the situation of a technical failure not due to a natural disaster, the normal operations should be resumed in less than a week. This includes situations of hardware failure of the servers or networking equipment, attacks from hackers and malicious software as well as denial of service (DoS/DDoS) attacks.
1.4 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION AND ARCHITECTURE
1.4.1 Overview The headquarters houses at least 50 servers which maintain a minimum of 12 different databases as well as the website. The