What is Disaster Recovery Planning?
Disaster recovery planning is effectively the preparation of those steps that will be necessary for recovery from a disaster or other crisis situation. The plan itself is the core of the whole planning exercise, and is of critical importance. It is vital, therefore, that if you are to manage an incident successfully, the plan itself must be of the highest quality and be up to date. A major part of the disaster recovery planning process is the assessment of the potential risks to the organization which could result in the disasters or emergency situations themselves. It is necessary to consider all the possible incident types, as well as and the impact each may have on the organization’s ability to continue to deliver its normal business services.
BIA is the foundation for all business continuity planning and should be conducted prior to continuity and disaster recovery plan development. The BIA identifies an organization’s system resources, critical processes, allowable outage times and potential impacts that may result from a disruption in operations.
