While many companies made short term changes to allow for working from home during the peak of the pandemic, as vaccines roll out, companies are now considering whether to make that working from home a permanent option. For those doing so, with roughly half of respondents to a survey from PwC indicating it would be the case, it is time for them to reexamine the effects on their disaster recovery plans.
Writing at ComputerWeekly.com, contributor Stephen Pritchard recommends these organizations work through a set of five steps, to help adjust and refine their disaster recovery approaches for the new environment:
- Review your lists of threats, and proposed response strategies
- Consider new IT risks, including those introduced by remote working and associated security challenges
- Examine how communication will be handled after an incident, when team members may not all be local
- Update testing approaches to consider the impact of distributed networks, resources, and personnel
- Revise related training to address these new environments, whether from the point of view of security or disaster recovery
Source:
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Five-ways-that-disaster-recovery-changes-in-a-pandemic
