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Your emergency operations plan may also include establishing an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Larger organizations often set up such an emergency command and control center as the nerve center for their emergency operations during a disaster. Preparing an Interim DR Plan Most organizations can immediately recognize the risks associated with the absence of a disaster recovery plan. If you know that you can’t have a full DR plan in place and tested for more than a year, you may want to have something in place while you complete the full DR plan.
But you also need to conduct risk analysis of each critical business function to quantify Chapter 1: Understanding Disaster Recovery the effect on the organization if something interrupts each of these functions for a long time. This activity is known as the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) because it analyzes the impact that each critical process has on the business. Setting the Maximum Tolerable Downtime For each critical process, the team needs to determine an important measure — the longest amount of time the process can be unavailable before that unavailability threatens the very survival of the business.
They require the best and brightest minds in the business, taking those minds away from other projects. From a strictly financial perspective, disaster recovery planning doesn’t provide profitability, nor should you expect the organization to become any more efficient or effective (although both can happen). You may find selling the idea of a DR project to management difficult. A DR project doesn’t have a ROI (return on investment), any more than data security does. ). Still, you may need to convince management that DR planning is a worthwhile investment for any (or all) of the following reasons: ߜ Disaster preparation and survival: The most obvious benefit of a completed DR plan is the organization’s survival from a disaster — survival that comes as a result of planning and preparation.