As an IT specialist, one of your responsibilities it to develop a disaster recovery plan (DRP) for the organization in case of an emergency.
Last year, there was a devastating fire at your place of business that took out the local server room and required the organization to move to a different building. Fortunately, due to good business continuity planning, the backup database was at another location; however, the team struggled with backup tools, processes, and policies when it came to supporting newfound remote employees. Now, your IT manager has asked you to prepare a DRP so everyone can be ready in case of a future emergency.
Your manager has asked you to write a 1,050- to 1,400-word disaster recovery plan in a Word document.
Include the following in your plan:
- Identify 2 tools used for backup purposes that would support business continuity to ensure that the data can be accessed during the disaster.
- Explain who is responsible for the backup. How often should data be backed up?
- How will the data be protected while at rest? What security requirements will be necessary?
- With respect to disaster recovery, explain how quickly the primary database should be restored. Why?
- Explain how employees would access the backup database during business continuity efforts.
- Since the former office space is inaccessible, explain where the employees would work.
- What communication methods would be used?
- Outline the major components of a backup storage policy to include data at rest. Consider the steps you took in the week’s labs to support your outline.
Cite at least 2 resources to support your assignment.
Format your citations according to APA guidelines.
TEXTBOOK
EC-Council. (2022). Certified secure computer user (3rd ed.).