While most companies have at least some minimal form of disaster recovery in place, there’s frequently a lot of room left for improvement, whether via expansion of the types of threats that could be faced or improving the scope and depth of training. Writing for IT Pro, Senior Content Marketing Manager Esther Kezia Thorpe offers this set of eight tips and hints which can help ensure your business is prepared the next time an emergency occurs:
- Keep all documentation current and readily available
- Perform risk assessments to identify likely threats and points of failure
- Train regularly, to ensure people are ready to react when the plan is needed
- Don’t focus only on large disasters, but also consider the effects of smaller outages or disruptions
- Consider cloud-based solutions to augment data recovery systems
- Examine your systems for single points of failure, and develop redundancies for critical systems
- Integrate your disaster recovery plan with proper considerations of security practices
- Regularly revisit your disaster recovery plan, to ensure it remains applicable to your organization’s current needs
No single plan will work for every organization. However, by considering the above, your company should be able to develop a disaster recovery strategy that meets its current needs.
