Disaster Recovery Planning Template and Other DRP Tools

No, it needn't be difficult. Much of a disaster recovery planning initiative is common sense. The rest is greatly simplified through simple to use proven tools and templates. This Disaster Recovery Planning Template was use by consultants who created the Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Resumption plan that Merrill Lynch used after 9/11.

This site is designed to catalog the easiest yet most effective approaches and products... to make disaster recovery planning less of a trauma and more of a business process.

The creation of the plan itself is the first port of call, but we also examine contingency audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance from a management perspective.

Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster Recovery Audit

Risk analysis is inextricably linked with disaster recovery. Assessment of the risks which may lead to disaster is essential in the determination of what controls are appropriate to the situation. Again, however, risk analysis is often made more difficult than necessary.

Do you really need a complicated piece of software to create your plan? Do you need 20 years experience in business continuity planning? Do you need to divert untold resources into the plan creation exercise? Certainly, if you employ the Disaster Recovery Planning Template the answer is... NO!

How do you ensure that your disaster recovery plan meets your actual needs? How do you know that it will all work? Do you audit it, and if so, how?

Equally fundamentally, do you know what your resource/service dependencies are and what their time criticalities are? What of your actual everyday contingency practices - do they measure up?

To determine and ensure all of this with minimum fuss, a comprehensive but extremely simple to use product is now available.... the Disaster Recovery Toolkit - Business and IT Impact Analysis.

Threat / Vulnerability

Disaster Recovery Planning News

Risk analysis is inextricably linked with disaster recovery. assessment of the risks which may lead to disaster is essential in the determination of what controls are appropriate to the situation. Again, however, risk analysis is often made more difficult than necessary.

The Threat & Vulnerability Assessment Tool Kit and tool was designed to simplify matters, and to make risk analysis more widely accessible through automation. It is now probably the most widely used product and method in the world

Further Information

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08/01/2008 It Productivity Center/CRWE.OB - Business & IT Impact Questionnarire CIO Prodiuctivity Tool Kit Client Server Management HandiGuide Disaster Recovery Plan Template Electronic Information - E-mail Policy Functional Specifications Template Interent & PC Workstation ... more info

04/30/2008 Texas Kentwood Fire - (Janco), announced today the release of Version 4.1 of its disaster Recovery and business Continuity Template. This electronic document is over 183 pages and can be used in the creation of a unique disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and ... more info

04/18/2008 Disaster Recovery - Disaster Recovery Planning Forum - Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) template is sarbanes oxley and HIPAA compliant and the disaster recovery tool kit includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to Source: www.e-janco.com. Disaster Recovery Plan - DRP ... more info

11/02/2007 DR and BCP -- not synonomous, but each essential! - I have come to believe we have relied too much on technology to realize the practical values that Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity SHOULD deliver back to the business in terms of Configuration and Service Management. ... more info

11/01/2007 Disaster Recovery Audit Program Released - Janco Associates announced the availability of its awaited Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program. The CEO of Janco said, The Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program is an additional component of the ... more info