A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented process used to protect and recover IT data and critical services in the event of a disaster. This could be a natural disaster, such as fire or flood, although these are unlikely to be a regular threat. The focus of a Disaster Recovery Plan needs to be on the type of threats that we continually read about these days.

1. How to formulate a Disaster Recovery Plan?

2. What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
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Documented process used to protect and recover IT data
and critical services in the event of a disaster such as
 Fire
 Flood
 Power outage
 Ransomware
 Cyberattack
 Human error
 Unplanned updates
 Server or software failure
 Business impact significantly reduced when plan in place

3. Key elements
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Recovery process
 Define most important assets
 Prioritise
People
 Who is responsible for each area?
 Internal
 Third parties
 Identify key roles and responsibilities
 Recovery time
 Carry out business impact analysis
 Define acceptable recovery time
 Critical data and applications
 Non-critical

4. Key elements
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Budget
Dependent on recovery time
Longer recovery time – smaller budget
needed
Communication
How to communicate with other parties
(email may be down)

5. Finally……..
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Regularly test and refine your Disaster Recovery Plan
Download TechTarget’s free DRP template here
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and secure?
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