Does Your Organization Have a Disaster Recovery Plan?

If you have been in the information technologyout what's been written for such disaster and
field for any length of time you will no doubt befollows the plan. Granted, something written in
familiar with the term disaster recovery plan orcalmness and tranquility will never ever have the
DRPs. They are the best thing in the world whensame punch of an actual emergency because
they are written and in place. The opposite sidenormally there is chaos all around. However, the
of that coin is that if they are not in place andprocess of writing the DRP is worth the effort
something happens, your organization can take abecause it gets people thinking about how they
huge loss, a loss greater than the disaster thatwould do things and even how your networks are
exposed the fact that you never had a DRP.redundant and fail-safe now. The major question
DRPs are tough to write because they involve athat should be looked at is, "if something happens
lot of variables and educated guesses. They areright now to our facility, is there availability
also expensive to maintain because each divisionelsewhere?" Do you have fail over capability? Do
or department within your organization mustyou have redundant systems and networks?
address their specific areas and how they wouldWhat about backups? Where are they stored?
handle every emergency and disaster imaginable.There are a lot of things to consider when
Just identifying the correct subject mattercreating a disaster recovery plan. Even though
experts in each department can be a dauntingwhen a major disaster occurs, the plans are
and challenging.tossed for expediency, there is great value in
Having said that, a well-written DRP will save yoursystematically reviewing current methodologies
bacon! When a disaster occurs, management pullsand procedures.