ISOL632 University of the Cumberlands Disaster Recovery Plan Creation Paper

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Description

Prepare a report to address all aspects of the assignment. This report should be no less than15 pages of content. You need to include outside sources and properly cite and reference your sources. You must have at least 10 references, 5 of which must be scholarly peer-reviewed articles. In addition to the 15 pages of content, you will want a title page and a reference sheet. This report needs to be in proper APA format.

You team has been asked to create disaster recovery plan (DRP) for an organization that the group selects. Because extensive research is required, please make sure to select a real organization. The group will focus on a Retail company with Sales, Regions, Territories, Credit Card Transactions, and eCommerce. The organization may have a manufacturing component to build certain products. Ensure to cover the systems, resources, and databases used by the organization. You will need to use an example database to outline the customer, transactional, an employee data. All application and databases servers are stored on premise at the location.

Project Charter

Develop the project charter for the initiative. Use template in folder.

DRP Plan

Research DRP in the area before you start. It will also be good to review DRP templates to ensure you cover all areas. Each group will have unique document created for the selected organization.

The DRP must contain the following:

Introduction

Include name and background of the organization. The group will also need to discuss the business model, revenue, vendors, suppliers, and market.

Background

Identify the types of disasters that can affect this organization.

Identification of employees and where they are located – include facilities.

Inventory of hardware, database, and software, and Client/Server. Include a diagram and infrastructure. The group can create the diagram with MS Visio.

Database – Example of Data for DRP

You can use SQL Server Professional or Express 2016 or 2017. The Adventure Works is the database tables that we use for the labs. Were you able to download SQL Server 2017 on your machine?

SQL Management Studio 2017

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/application-development

Adventure Works Database

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49502


Determination of allowable downtime.

Description of roles and responsibilities.

Creation of a communications management plan – ensure there is enough detail.

Develop a Business Impact Analysis – This can be done in Excel and imported into the document.

Potential Risk. The group can make a risk register.

Discussion

Discussion on the trigger event.

Discussion of action to take when an emergency occurs (i.e., cold site, warm site, and hot site (SLAs) and contracts.

Discussion regarding how sensitive information will be handled.

Discussion pertaining to how the plan will be tested.

Evaluation of Disaster Recovery software.

Training for key employees and department.

Team, Resources, certifications, locations.

Budget and Costs.

Cover how you will get top management involvement in the creation and testing of the plan.

Business Continuity Plan (During, After, and Before)

Resume and Recovery

How will the business continue operations during the disaster?

Build a project plan on the continuity of operations.

  • System Access
  • Communication Access
  • Customer Access

Conclusion

References
APA citations

Ensure to use the Author, YYYY citations with any content brought into the paper. Any citations in the paper need to have a listed reference in this section.

http://ucumberlands.libguides.com/c.php?g=504168

http://ucumberlands.libguides.com/citations/apa

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html


Terms and Definitions

Appendixes

Presentation

Be prepared to present a 10-minute presentation on this assignment.

Helpful Links or Resources

Chapter 9, 10, and 11 in textbook

https://www.ready.gov/business/implementation/continuity

https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/disaster-recovery-plan

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Explanation & Answer

Here is your report and the presentation together with the plagiarism result :)

Disaster Recovery plan for
Business Continuity Plan
for
San Grafix
Presentation

 San Grafix is a video and PC game design company.
 It has two locations.
 The organization is planning to implement new
technologies that improve the organization

San grafix Management Overview

This is to the disruption of business activities and
prioritize the necessary corrective actions.
 The business operations for E-commerce process are
online .
 These processes are supported with E-mail based
communications.


Disaster Recovery Plan

A process of developing strategic plans to
perform actions.
 It was presented by the business
continuity team, to inform the higher
management.
 For the important business processes.


Business Continuity Plan

To remain operational must have a wellstructured plan.
 Laid down by a company in advance and
called upon case.
 To help restore the normal operations of
San Grafix.


Disaster Recovery Plan Statement – San Grafix

The business continuity policy statement of
the San Grafix will include the following:
 Plan
 Design
 Develop a business continuity plan

Business Continuity Policy Statement – San
Grafix

San Grafix has its internal R&D for the
purpose of designing and developing new
video games.
 It is similar to any other IT organization
 The entire system will be divided in to
different departments


Business mpact analysis- San grafix

Business process outline

Estimated downtime


Running head: DISASTER RECOVERY

1

Disaster Recovery
Name
Affiliation
Date

DISASTER RECOVERY

2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................... 3
BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................... 4
Database ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Determination of allowable downtime ........................................................................................ 6
Description of roles and responsibilities ..................................................................................... 8
Communications management plan ............................................................................................ 9
Business Impact Analysis.......................................................................................................... 10
Potential Risk ............................................................................................................................ 11
DISCUSSION .............................................................................................................................. 12
BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN ............................................................................................ 14
Resume and Recovery ............................................................................................................... 14
System Access ....................................................................................................................... 14
Communication Access & Customer Access ........................................................................ 17
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................... 17
References ..................................................................................................................................... 18

DISASTER RECOVERY

3

INTRODUCTION
Many companies have collapsed and others experienced major constraints after disasters
have happened. Some of the common disasters come from the failures in the Information
Technology. In the current world, many companies are dependent on IT and any failure leads to
major disruption of operations. It is always required that a company be ready for a disaster. The
initial step involves putting an appropriate mechanism that will prevent a disaster from
happening. An example is when a company ensures all their computer systems have security
software installed such as firewalls to prevent any disruptions. The security mechanism is meant
to keep the company systems secure, but at times the mechanism can be bypassed or
compromised leading to a disaster happening. Disasters may be prevented, but they will still
happen. A company that wishes to remain operational must have a well-structured plan that will
help it recover after a disaster has stricken. A disaster recovery plan is a strategy that is laid
down by a company in advance and called upon in case of a disaster happening to help the
company get back to its initial level it was before a disaster took place. It is a strategy to help
restore the normal operations of a company once it has been faced by a disaster that disrupted its
normal operations.
The San Grafix is a video and PC game design company that sells the games on
their e-commerce platform and support the complete business operations. Located in San
Francisco, CA which will be the primary location and followed by the Sunnyvale CA. The new
location is Sunnyvale supports 220 users. The new facility supports the demand of the new hot
seller game and secures the San Grafix’s competitive position in the gaming industry by
providing high availability, scalability, and performance(John Rittinghouse, 2011). The key
business processes supported by the San Grafix systems are identified. The do...


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