Disaster Recovery Planning

A disaster recovery plan is a documented process or set of procedures to ensuring that your assets, data, hardware are recovering and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. Disaster recovery planning is important to save money, save your customers, save your business.

IT disaster will happen to your company? With the combination of natural disasters, hardware failures and human error, the reality is that data loss is only a matter.

TYPES OF DISASTERS

Disasters that have occurred in similar businesses and companies in the same area may be researched to ascertain the type of threats facing a company. They are,

·          Natural or environmental disasters:

• A natural or environmental disaster could be anything from a fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, lightning storm or an air crash.
• The location of the business premises and the local environment needs to be assessed to determine the exact external threats that the company faces.

1       Technical or mechanical hazards:

• Technical Disasters includes the computers problems, instrumental failures, industrial disasters, equipment problems, etc  
• Examples of technical threats include viruses, worms, power outages, backup failure, system failure and hacker attacks such as denial of service attacks.

               Human Activities or Threads:

• These include accidental and intentional activities. 
• Malicious attacks may originate from hackers, paid professionals, disgruntled employees or organized crime gangs.
• Unintentional threats may come from employees who accidentally delete or update information.
•  Over dependence on one key person is also a threat to the system.

Here are the top reasons why you should to think Disaster Recovery Planning.

• Machines and hardware fail.
• Customers expect perfection.
• Customer retention is costly, but customer re-acquisition is devastatingly expensive.
• You’re only as strong as your weakest link.
• To reduce downtime
• To limit liability
• Human Activities or Threads

       BENEFITS OF COMPUTER DISASTER PLANS

• Enables a company to quickly restore its capabilities to process critical accounting information.
• Provide services and products for its customers efficiently and effectively.
• Preparation of such a plan forces a company to prioritize accounting applications into critical and non-critical categories.
• Thus, the company is able to continue processing critical accounting information, ensuring that it will not temporarily nor permanently cease operations.