Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events. Management's involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency.…
The Business Continuity Plan is designed to prepare an organization to continue doing business when a disaster strikes. The BCP differs from the traditional disaster recovery plan in the fact that a BCP covers all aspects of the business and incorporates the DRP as part of it. The DRP focuses on restoring data and on information technology only.…
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involves planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions.…
2. What is the difference between a Disaster Recovery Plan and a Business Continuity Plan?…
2. What is the difference between a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan…
A plan designed to help an organization continue to operate during and after a disruption…
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Definition Disaster: is a natural or man-caused event that damages property and assets, injures or kills people, and impairs the ability for organizations to continue operating. Business Continuity Planning: is the set of activities required to ensure the continuation of critical business processes when a disaster occurs. Disaster Recovery Planning: is the set of activities concerned with the assessment, salvage, repair, and restoration of damaged facilities and assets that support critical business processes.…
Business continuity planning and disaster recovery capability will become compulsory for all healthcare business for the first time in the United States healthcare industry. The health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA) that was passed by the United States congress in 1996 has a part of its phased implementation "Security Guidelines," which refers to information security. This section dictates that all healthcare organizations who use healthcare data must meet the terms of business continuity and data security standards within two years. The final guideline on this subject was published late 2000 in the federal register. The implementation of the said security guidelines in business continuity requirement is expected from as early as 2001. The strategic goal of this legislative mandate is to reduce the cost in the healthcare area by standardizing data processing. This has been done as an introduction to founding a centralized clearing-house for processing claims, almost the same as the financial industry. Business continuity management is important for healthcare organizations since they could be in situations where their normal operations have been compromised concurrently with an increase in the community’s demand for their services.…
In this writing I will be presenting the main duties for the Business Continuity Lead/Manager position. I feel this position is one that is of great importance, particularly in dealing with the sensitive healthcare information and systems that you all use on a daily basis. This position gives you at least some insurance that if something were to happen your company would not be lost or have a great deal of downtime from providing your essential services to your clients. I will begin by describing some of the task that are requirements of this position.…
Tragic events that cause damage to property and life may destroy the social, cultural and economic life of a community. Communities must be engaged in the various phases from prevention to recovery to build disaster resilient communities. In order to do this, there must be a disaster preparedness plan in place that involves multiple people in various roles.…
2. What is the difference between a Disaster Recovery Plan and a Business Continuity Plan? Disaster recovery is the older of the 2 functions. DR planning is an essential part of business planning that – too often – gets neglected. Part of this has to do with the fact that making a Disaster Recovery plan requires a lot of time and attention from busy managers and executives from every functional department within the company. Business continuity is a newer term which was first popularized as a response to the Y2K bug. In order to stop your company from bleeding money in these situations, you need a plan that will allow the organization to continue generating revenue and providing services – although possibly with lower quality – on a temporary basis until the company has regained its bearings.…
From a planning and implementation perspective people are a major factor in business continuity efforts. When a natural disaster strikes, some or all of your employees will be impacted. Loss of life or serious injury is a real possibility. As you evaluate business functions and processes, you will also need to identify key positions, knowledge, and skills needed for business continuity. "The BC/DR plan needs to look at key positions within the company and understand the role of each in the business continuity realm." (Business Impact…
A disaster recovery plan is a plan to restore a critical business process or system to operation after a disaster. It is invoked after a disaster such as flood, tornado and hurricane.…
If I were developing a business continuity plan for my company I would start forming back up teams in different locations that work together to create and coordinate plans addressing loss of facilities, personnel, critical systems so that the company can continue to operate when a catastrophic event occurs.…
Contingency planning are steps, procedures, and policies for management that are created to keep business operations on track running and/or to restore them as well possibly during disaster or system failure. Disaster recovery is a number of processes that only pays attention to the processes of recovery. As defined by the Department of Health and Human Services, a contingency /disaster recovery plan is a strategic measure taken if there is a malfunction in a business product or if there is disaster such as flood, or fire or if things don’t go according to plan, (DHHS,…