DRS Articles Published in the Disaster Recovery Journal
Best Laid Plans in Recovery Planning
Beware of Artificial Readiness
Other DRS Published Articles
Three Steps to Readiness
Do Your Customers Know?
DR Testing and Compliance
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Disaster Recovery testing requires effective, planning, and execution in order to ensure systems are restored; recovery plans are accurate and are in alignment with the organization's Business Continuity program's recovery solution.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity programs are not instituted at Time of Disaster; but have been built in advance, from the ground up through preparation,
planning, delivery and regulatory compliance.
Disaster Readiness Program Review/Audit
Review your program
Determine regulatory and audit compliance
Transparency and Traceability are Key
Identify potential gaps
Recommend solutions to fill gaps in compliance
Manage delivery of solutions
Disaster Readiness Testing
- Prepare and conduct testing of your program
- Design tests based on your organization’s recovery scenarios
- Ranging from organization-wide outages to single system recoveries
Make it a Party!
Do not operate in a silo, treat BC and DR tests and activities as a growth and knowledge opportunity
Business Users will learn how systems are recovered and operate in DR
IT will better understand how business is conducted and what users need in a recovery through collaborative activities
Encourage active participation in BC and DR tests and activities from all impacted groups such as Infrastructure Services, Application Support, Business and Operational Units, Internal and External Partners