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Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Business Continuity
ISO27001, ISO27002, Sarbanes - Oxley, PCI, and HIPAA Compliant

 

This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be used as a Disaster Planning template for any enterprise. The Disaster Recovery template and supporting material have been updated to be ISO 27000, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA compliant.  The Disaster Planning Template comes as a Word document and includes:

  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template

  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire

  • Work Plan

New with this version are:

  • Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form

  • Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook

    • Quick Reference Guide

    • Team Alert List (Form)

    • DRP Team Responsibilities

    • DRP Team Checklist

    • Critical Function(s) Definition

    • Normal Business Hour Response Procedures

    • After Hours Response Procedures

    • DRP Location(s) Definition

    • DRP Recovery Procedures

    • Notification Procedures

    • Notification Call List (Form)

  • Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire

  • Vendor Phone List Form Updated

  • Key Customer Notification Form

  • Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form

  • Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form

Included in the template is Business Impact Questionnaire as well as a full Job Description for the Disaster Recovery Manager.  The premium edition contains 14 full job descriptions.

Clients can also subscribe to Janco's DRP update service and receive all updates to the DRP Template for 18 months* from the date of purchase. 

The DRP template is over 200 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement.  The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:

  • Plan Introduction

  • Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix

  • DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - drp checklist

  • Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.

  • Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points

  • Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format

  • Plan Administration Process

  • Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points

  • Job Description for Disaster Recovery Manager (3 pages long) - entire disaster recovery team job descriptions are available.

  • Work Plan to modify and implement the template.  Included is a list of deliverables for each task.

There is a extensive section that show how a full test of the DRP can be conducted.  It includes

  • Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities

  • Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis

  • Training of the Disaster Recovery Team

  • Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests

  • Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

Testimonial - Dave Baker - City of Hamilton - I have found the DRP template invaluable!

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Lauch Testing Lab - The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care - I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation - We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.

 



* Update service is for 12 months unless it is purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the Template.  Janco reserves the right to validate purchase of the customer was made for the template.

 

This template is not for resale or re-distribution - Disaster Recovery Planning Template Disaster Recovery Template


 

 

 

Disaster Recovery News

07/24/2008
Audit questions disaster preparations (Telegraph-Journal) Vital communication centres that take calls from distressed people and dispatch police officers might be crippled by an earthquake or other disaster because there are no solid backup plans to keep them running.

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07/23/2008
Asia-Pacific nations plan disaster drills (Gulf Times) SINGAPORE: Asia-Pacific states are discussing a plan to hold military-led disaster relief exercises in the Philippines next year, senior defence officials said yesterday.

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07/23/2008
Cemaphore Announces Version 2.3 of MailShadow(R) Solution for Disaster Recovery and Microsoft Exchange Continuity (Centre Daily Times) Cemaphore Systems(TM), the industry's leading provider of e-mail continuity and content management, today announced the new 2.3 version of its flagship MailShadow(R) Enterprise solution for Microsoft Exchange continuity and disaster recovery. MailShadow 2.3 gives enterprises the ability to protect, replicate, and fail over and back thousands of individual mailboxes between geographically ...

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07/23/2008
Town prepared for full-scale disaster, Van Tighem says (Jasper Booster) Jasper will be able to respond to a major crisis using the town’s emergency plan, says the local disaster services director.

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07/23/2008
Asia-Pacific nations plan disaster drills (Straits Times) ASIA-Pacific states are discussing a plan to hold military-led disaster relief exercises in the Philippines next year, senior defence officials said on Wednesday.

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07/23/2008
Asia's main security forum to address disaster planning (Khaleej Times) SINGAPORE - Strengthening disaster response is a key priority for ministers meeting at Asia's top security forum on Thursday after May's devastating cyclone in Myanmar and earthquake in China.

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07/23/2008
Asia's main security forum to address disaster planning (EARTHtimes.org) Singapore - Strengthening disaster response is a key priority for ministers meeting at Asia's top security forum on Thursday after May's devastating cyclone in Myanmar and earthquake in China. The recent calamities pushed emergency planning to the to...

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07/23/2008
Asia-Pacific nations plan disaster drills (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Manny Mogato SINGAPORE, July 23 (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific states are discussing a plan to hold military-led disaster relief exercises in the Philippines next year, senior defence officials said on ...

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07/22/2008
Disaster Recovery: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Baseline) After years of progress in disaster recovery and business continuity, advances are beginning to unravel in planning, communication and will. Is your company's risk management plan in line with the best practices in disaster recovery?

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07/21/2008
US, Malaysia urge Asia-Pacific air forces to work together in disaster response planning (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News) The United States has urged Asia-Pacific air forces to plan and cooperate more in disaster relief efforts, saying Tuesday that the region faces a "tremendous potential" for calamities like Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis.

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