The disaster recovery handbook : a step-by-step plan to ensure business continuity and protect vital operations, facilities, and assets

Expect the best. Plan for the worst. Survey the headlines: superstorms, data breaches, pandemics, system failures, and strikes occur regularly...somewhere. If a disaster hits your organization will you be prepared? With the detailed guidance found in The Disaster Recovery Handbook , your companys survival and the speedy resumption of business is assured. This thoroughly updated third edition provides readers with clear and comprehensive instructions for assessing risk; documenting recovery procedures; assembling a disaster team; testing and debugging every step; protecting material resources; and safeguarding vital records. Featuring an examination of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and an all-new chapter on information security, this all-in-one tool kit helps you both avoid potential trouble and recover swiftly when the worst occurs. Anything can happen, but The Disaster Recovery Handbook helps you plan for every contingency, ensuring your company is responsible, ready, and resilient. Content: Acknowledgments -- 1. Getting started: overview of the project -- 2. Building the business case: measuring the impact on the business -- 3. Evaluating risk: understanding what can go wrong -- 4. Selecting a strategy: setting the direction -- 5. Building an interim plan: don't just sit there, do something -- 6. Writing the plan: getting it down on paper -- 7. Administrative plan: orchestrating the recovery -- 8. Technical recovery plan: putting humpty dumpty back together again -- 9. Work area recovery plan: getting the office up and running -- 10. Pandemic plan: the wrath of nature -- 11. Crisis management plan: minimizing the damage -- 12. Emergency operations plan: taking control of the situation -- 13. Testing your plans: test, test, test -- 14. Certifications: how does your plan measure up? -- 15. Policies and procedures: get everyone moving in the same direction -- 16. Electrical service: keeping the juice flowing -- 17. Telecommunications and networking: your connection to the world -- 18. Vital records recovery: covering your assets -- 19. Information security response: always vigilant -- 20. Data: your most irreplaceable asset -- 21. Workstations: the weakest link -- 22. Customers: other people to worry about -- 23. Suppliers: collateral damage -- 24. Fire: burning down the house -- 25. Human resources: your most valuable asset -- 26. Health and safety: keeping everyone healthy -- 27. Terrorism: the wrath of man -- Glossary -- About the authors. "You can't predict or prevent disasters. That's reality. But with The Disaster Recovery Handbook, you can create a plan to ensure your business will continue and your vital operations, facilities, and assets will be protected. Expect the best. Plan for the worst. Survey the headlines: superstorms, data breaches, pandemics, system failures, and strikes occur regularly...somewhere. If a disaster hits your organization--will you be prepared? With the detailed guidance found in The Disaster Recovery Handbook, your company's survival and the speedy resumption of business is assured. This thoroughly updated third edition provides readers with clear and comprehensive instructions for assessing risk; documenting recovery procedures; assembling a disaster team; testing and debugging every step; protecting material resources; and safeguarding vital records. Featuring an examination of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and an all-new chapter on information security, this all-in-one tool kit helps you both avoid potential trouble and recover swiftly when the worst occurs. Anything can happen, but The Disaster Recovery Handbook helps you plan for every contingency, ensuring your company is responsible, ready, and resilient."--Amazon The twenty-first century is an unpredictable place. While you cannot predict or prevent disasters, you can prepare for them with effort and planning. A quick survey of the headlines for any given day in the twenty-first century will highlight global market-affecting disasters such as superstorms, data breaches, pandemics, system failures, and strikes. With the detailed guidance found in the thoroughly updated version of this handbook, your company's survival and the speedy resumption of business is all but assured. In The Disaster Recovery Handbook, you will learn how to proactively: Assess risk Create and document recovery procedures Assemble a disaster team Test and debug thoroughly Safeguard vital records, and more! With The Disaster Recovery Handbook by your side—including the third edition's updates of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and information security—you can learn how to avoid a great deal of potential trouble for your organization. When unavoidable, unpredictable disasters occur, you will know that you have planned for every contingency and have ensured that your company is responsible, ready, and resilient. Terrorist attacks. Data assaults. Natural catastrophes. Disease outbreaks. Recent years have taught us that not only was 9/11 not just a single, horrible occurrence, but that events of many types can-and statistically will-hit organizations of every size, threatening to disrupt and potentially even destroy those that are not fully prepared. This revised edition, filled with up-to-the-minute thinking and the latest legal and technological updates, provides readers with practical tools and ready-to-use instructions for assessing risk; clearly documenting recovery procedures; assembling a disaster team; testing and debugging every step; protecting material resources; and recovering vital records. In addition to a CD packed with forms and checklists, the book contains case studies, interviews, and all the practical guidance needed to create the kind of thorough disaster recovery plan every responsible organization must have in place This thoroughly updated third edition provides readers with clear and comprehensive instructions for assessing risk; documenting recovery procedures; assembling a disaster team; testing and debugging every step; protecting material resources; and safeguarding vital records. The Disaster Recovery Handbook helps plan for every contingency, ensuring any company is responsible, ready, and resilient. Abstract: With the detailed guidance found in The Disaster Recovery Handbook, your company's survival and the speedy resumption of business is all but assured.This thoroughly updated third edition provides readers with clear and comprehensive instructions and an all-new chapter on information security. The all-in-one tool kit helps you both avoid potential trouble and recover swiftly when disaster occurs. Read more... In business, we expect the best but should plan for the worst. If a disaster hits your organization, will you be prepared?