Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery

Ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity is the foundation for building business resilience into your organization. Disaster recovery involves the ability to respond to and recover from virtually any disruptive event that may impact your workforce, operations, business processes, applications or infrastructure. disaster recovery is essential, not only in terms of planning for the contingencey of a disaster, but also to ensure that your organization is in compliance with fast-changing regulatory requirements, and that you are prepared to meet the demands of a changing marketplace in a continuous management life cycle that is steered in line with the goals and strategies of your business. TAG-ITI’s Disaster Recovery and Continuity Planning services assist organizations in identifying weaknesses in their current IT environment and backup and recovery procedures; identifying specific requirements that enable organizations to recover from any business disruption; and recommending steps to help bring your organization’s IT systems online and restore critical business operations quickly and cost effectively. This process is undertaken by offering a Disaster Recovery Assessment, Disaster Recovery Planning and Design, Disaster Recovery Validation and Testing and Incident Response Team Creation.

Disaster Recovery Assessment

This assessment evaluates plans, processes, procedures, roles and responsibilities for your disaster recovery program, including backup for your system’s servers and recovery analysis.

Disaster Recovery Planning and Design

The disaster recovery planning process is undertaken by performing Business Impact Analysis and Threat & Risk Analysis for your organization. TAG-ITI can help you plan for disaster recovery, including program management, continuity strategy determination, reporting and service level management, developing business continuity plans and recovery procedures, in addition to designing architecture to help improve recoverability of technologies including key servers, storage and networks.

Disaster Recovery Validation and Testing

This process is performed once the plans have been designed and established. To ensure that your disaster recovery plans work they are placed through a rigorous testing process. TAG-ITI will test your disaster recovery plans and train you in doing this, so that your organization can conduct testing at any time.
Incident Response Team (IRT) Creation

TAG-ITI can help to establish a team of individuals in your organization to respond to any computer security related incident.

Typical questions that are asked when establishing an  IRT include but are not limited to:
 

•     What are the basic requirements for establishing an IRT?

•     What type of IRT will be needed?

•     What type of services should be offered?

•     How big should the IRT be?

•     Where should the IRT be located in the organization?

•     How much will it cost to implement and support a team?

•     What are the initial steps to follow to create an IRT?