The document summarizes the Treasury department's IT operations, compliance challenges, and disaster recovery project. It discusses the department's staffing and CIO support role. It also outlines the department's services, projects, compliance requirements, and security challenges. A key focus is on the department's disaster recovery project to upgrade its datacenter and secondary site for improved resilience, in response to past disruption events. The project aimed to meet recovery time objectives and reduce business disruption.

1. Treasury

2. Profile
• Staffing of around 800
• Central policy advising agency
• Some IT knowledge in the department
• CIO has a proactive support role• CIO has a proactive support role
• Many challenges working in government

3. Delivery
• Services
• Projects
• Innovation
Compliance
• Agency requirements
• Privacy
• Security
• Intellectual Property
• Governance
• Accessibility
• Evidence
• Recordkeeping
Compliance Challenge
Regulations
Policies
Standards
Laws
• Innovation
• Recordkeeping
• Reporting
• Freedom of Information
• Public Governance, Performance and
Accountability
• Workplace Health and Safety
• Chief Executive Instructions
Laws
Audits
Procedures

4. Security Challenge

5. A Strong Foundation
• We know what we’re up against (sources of
regulation, etc.)
• Innovation is a departmental priority – our• Innovation is a departmental priority – our
department wants us to try new things, so we
make the effort and don’t get put off by some
extra hoops to jump through.

6. Practical Behaviours
• Awareness
• Engagement
• Expectation management

7. Treasury in Action – DR Project
• 1970s building
• 7 years ago gutted Datacentre and put in a
pod system.
• 22 racks in total with about 16 in use, plus
4 at Secondary Site.

8. pre 2007

10. 2008

14. Disaster Recovery
2003 Canberra Bushfires

15. Regulatory Environment
• Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)
– Better Practice Guides
– Audits
• Audit Committee• Audit Committee

16. Starting the Thinking
• Business understanding of Business Continuity
Planning
• Myths and misconceptions
• Be part of the solution• Be part of the solution

17. DRIP – DR Implementation Project
• DR, Storage, Virtualisation
• Site Recovery Manager
• PLUS… Network/Comms Upgrade
• PLUS… Improved Secondary Site• PLUS… Improved Secondary Site
• Benefits are difficult to see

18. Return on Investment
• Accurately mapped current position.
• Acknowledged that this was not a cost
reduction project.
• Cost of staff being sent home.• Cost of staff being sent home.
• Other risks including reputation.
• Cost of risk realisation, probability.

19. Today

25. Project Benefits
• Meet or exceed the reduction in the IT
Recovery Time Objectives for Critical, Vital and
Essential Business Functions.
• Reduction in disruption to the business.• Reduction in disruption to the business.
• Reduced interruption for planned major site
outages.

26. Finalising now…

27. PRIMARY SITE SECONDARY SITE
Point in Time
Commvault
(IntelliSnap
Proxy Server)
SAN LUN 1
IntelliSnap Protected
VM
REPLICA SAN LUN 1
Point in Time Point in Time

28. Framework for Success
• Good Governance – PM and Reporting
• Good stakeholder management
• Know your business
– Business Strategy– Business Strategy
– IT Strategy
– SWOT
• Understand your audience

29. Framework for Success
• Know people and their biases
• Don’t assume they care like you care
• Keep it real
• Keep stakeholders informed as needed• Keep stakeholders informed as needed
• Understand the competition for funding

30. What’s Next?

31. Current Treasury Projects
• Future Desktop Initiative
– Mobility (VMware and AirWatch)
– Desktop Replacement
• SharePoint Records Management• SharePoint Records Management
– RecordPoint

32. Questions