Develop your plan
Without a well thought out and coordinated plan with all key stakeholders, restoration of critical business functionality will be difficult or may fail completely.
Your plan framework will cover:
- Business-critical operation
- Business-critical assets
- Disaster recovery processes and procedures
- Assigned roles and responsibilities
- Communication procedures
Develop recovery teams
Develop a communication plan ensuring that you assign clear roles and responsibilities to individuals. Establishing these roles will help to ensure that in the event of disaster everyone has a clear script and set of duties to perform. Performing this activity will take the burden away from a communications perspective, making the recovery process operate more smoothly.
Establish relocation plans
This is the part of your disaster recovery plan where you establish how your organization will operate and where your IT will be serviced from:
- Will employees work from a new business location or will they telework?
- Will...