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Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Business Continuity
Sarbanes - Oxley, HIPAA, and ISO 17799 Compliant
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This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be used as a Disaster Planning template for any enterprise. The Disaster Recovery template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA compliant.  The Disaster Planning Template comes as a Word document and includes:

  • Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Template

  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire

  • Work Plan

  • Disaster Recovery Plan Audit Program

New are:

  • Compliance with ISO 17799, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA standards

  • Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form

  • Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook

    • Quick Reference Guide

    • Team Alert List (Form)

    • DRP Team Responsibilities

    • DRP Team Checklist

    • Critical Function(s) Definition

    • Normal Business Hour Response Procedures

    • After Hours Response Procedures

    • DRP Location(s) Definition

    • DRP Recovery Procedures

    • Notification Procedures

    • Notification Call List (Form)

  • Updated Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire

  • Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire

  • Vendor Phone List Form Updated

  • Key Customer Notification Form

  • Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form

  • Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form

The premium edition contains 14 full job descriptions. They are:

  • Chief Information Officer

  • Chief Security Officer

  • Chief Compliance Officer

  • VP Strategy and Architecture

  • Director Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

  • Director e-Commerce

  • Manager Disaster Recovery

  • Manager Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

  • Disaster Recovery Coordinator

  • Disaster Recovery - Special Projects Supervisor

  • Manager Database

  • Capacity Planning Supervisor

  • Manager Media Library Support

  • Manager Site Management

The DRP template is over 189 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement.  The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:

  • Plan Introduction

  • Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix

  • DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - drp checklist

  • Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.

  • Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points

  • Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format

  • Plan Administration Process

  • Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points

  • Job Description for Disaster Recovery Manager (3 pages long) - entire disaster recovery team job descriptions are available.

  • Work Plan to modify and implement the template.  Included is a list of deliverables for each task. (Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment)

There is a extensive section that show how a full test of the DRP can be conducted.  It includes

  • Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities

  • Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis

  • Training of the Disaster Recovery Team

  • Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests

  • Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

Click on the link below to get the DRP/BC sample pages now and make it a part of your disaster recovery toolkit.

 

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Lauch Testing Lab - The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care - I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation - We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.

 



* Update service is for 12 months unless it is purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the Template.  Janco reserves the right to validate purchase of the customer was made for the template.

This template is not for resale or re-distribution - DRP Template Disaster Recovery Template

Live Disaster Recovery News

07/22/2008
Disaster Plan & Business Continuity Infrastructure

IT Infrastructure, Strategy, & Charter TemplateThe key technology elements of a Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Plan (DRP/BCP) infrastructure are the prima¬ry data center, a remote site that duplicates the resources in that primary location and the method used to get files (master and transaction) between the two sites – such as high-bandwidth network connections. The best DRP/BCP strategies follow a "redundant every¬thing" philosophy throughout the data center. Multiple mainframes and servers should run in the production and backup data facilities. Then, if a component in the production system encounters problems, it immediately fails over to the local backup as a first line of defense.

Power supplies and communication links are one of the most critical components in a DRP/BCP strategy.

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07/18/2008
What To Do When Disaster Strkes

A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results - that's the awful essence of a disaster.

Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error that erases a server, a power outage in a town. Each can wreck a business in minutes and is much more likely to happen than a terrorist attack or a hurricane.

Disaster PlanningAs gloomy as those scenarios may be, the name of the game for companies is "prepare for the worst; hope for the best." Companies can minimize the worst possible disruptions to their businesses and the lives of their employees by creating disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Such plans are not just for large and well-connected companies, but for small and midmarket companies as well.

These plans can protect company data and applications, and they can have a company back in business within 48 hours or less after a disaster. That's where Janco's Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template comes into play. The Templates provice the expertise to help companies craft their plans and then flesh out those plans with technology solutions.
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07/06/2008
Disaster Causes Many Businesses to Close Doors Forever

Consider this, almost 40% of small businesses that close due to a disaster event never re-open. What would you do if the building your business is located within was damaged or destroyed in a disaster? Where would you go to continue providing your customers with your business services? Would you be prepared and have the correct resources, databases, contact information and other necessary items to adapt to these changes? Having a disaster plan that identifies these important items will help ensure your business is prepared to survive during unexpected and difficult times!

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As historic floodwaters start to recede along the Mississippi and other Midwestern rivers, local businesses in affected communities like Cedar Falls, Iowa, are busy assessing the impact on IT equipment and whether disaster recovery plans stood the test.

A maker of computer games in Cedar Falls, may be permanently displaced after Cedar River floodwaters reached 6 feet in its administrative offices and 5.5 feet in an adjoining warehouse. The company sustained about $250,000 in damage to inventory.

The firm's president said all 65 employees are now working temporarily in borrowed offices in three facilities.

As the floodwaters approached on June 9, employees scurried to save 120 PCs, 80 monitors and eight servers. Three high-end printers could not be removed in time.

The company plans to revise his disaster recovery plan. "When a river comes up 6 feet higher than it ever has before, it's tough to have that foresight," they said. "But it is probably going to happen again."

A software development company has plans to deal with tornados and electrical outages, but executives never dreamed they would have to contend with the Cedar River surpassing 500-year-flood levels. "Going through this experience [will] make those plans [more] than just part of an IT checklist," he said.

A key lesson learned was that companies must prepare for employees to miss work to help families and communities after natural disasters.
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06/11/2008
Amazon Business Continuity Problems Are a Reality

Amazon suffered some disaster recovery and business continuity issuse as online shoppers struggled to enter Amazon.com's main e-commerce site for the second time in two days.

Only about 30% of visitors managed to enter Amazon.com, according to mobile and Internet management firm which tracks Web site performance.

The problem was not limited to the US as Amazon's U.K. storefront had similiar problems.

The U.K. site first experienced problems when its availability dropped as low as 38%.

Disaster Recovery Planning Template  Threat Vulnerability Assessment Tool  Business & IT Impact Analysis 

Amazon said, "Some customers reported intermittent problems accessing Amazon retail Web sites. Amazon is working to resolve the issues, and Amazon's Web services are not affected."

Average load times jumped to 15 seconds versus 6 seconds.

During the period of site unavailability most shoppers having access problems got the cryptic error message "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable, which means little to nontechnical people. That message indicates that whatever caused the problem proved hard to isolate, making it impossible for the company to configure its system to trigger a more intelligible alert acknowledging the problem in plain English.

The more complex a system is, the more challenging it is to maintain, and a configuration problem here can cause problems somewhere else.


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05/28/2008
Data Loss a Real Disaster Planning Concern Data LossConsider the Herculean efforts today to protect the network from threats: Intrusion prevention systems scan packets for potentially damaging content; email security systems check for viruses in email content and firewalls block unsolicited connections. To stop the onslaught of threats to corporate and government networks, a host of software and appliances are being deployed daily . In general, these border police applications are doing a fairly decent job of stopping unauthorized intrusion at the door to your network.

Date BreachBut what about organizational insiders? Which applications or appliances are scrutinizing the information being passed out of the network? Intrusion prevention systems and firewalls aren’t looking for intellectual property sliding out the door right under their virtual noses. Specifically in healthcare organizations, what about patient information sent unprotected over the Internet to another provider? Add in the always-changing regulatory environment, and security is a unique challenge. All it takes is one misstep to compromise sensitive information. These are legitimate, authorized users communicating in an above-board way – but potentially exposing sensitive data in the process. This is the core of the immensely complex problem of data loss.
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05/13/2008
Data Bacup Takes Bandwidth

Disaster Recovery Plan Template

Whether backing up remote data onto centralized tape or disk backup systems, or replicating company assets between redundant data centers, wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations to move data between sites without the constraints of distance and throughput. One optimization system accelerates applications typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times faster than conventional transport mechanisms with up to a 95% reduction in WAN bandwidth utilization.   


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