Implementing Disaster Recovery Processes

Apart from how disaster recovery is designed, it is also important to consider how it is operated during times of crisis and to plan accordingly. An organization needs to consider how best to respond in terms of judging the seriousness of the event and the best practices in handling it. You also need to know who the right people to respond are, how any issues will be communicated with stakeholders such as management and customers, and how to assess the extent of any damage. Finally, any plan will include details on the restoration process, and how to learn and implement learnings from any incident.

Again, it is quite hard to give specific recommendations on disaster recovery since the details of the process and plan to recover heavily depend on contextual factors of the organization. What constitutes a disaster for a facility that manufactures and stores dangerous chemicals is very different from what constitutes a disaster for a medical...