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Five Items to Consider for Your Disaster Recovery Plan

July 18, 2019

Nobody wants to experience a disaster, but everyone should be prepared to deal with one. These days, we have to be prepared to deal with natural and cyber disasters. Tom Merritt at Tech Republic offers five considerations for your disaster recovery plan.

1. Decide what data you can lose: In the process, you'll begin to prioritize what you realize you can and cannot lose—this way you can focus on the most important systems and devices.
2. Is it worth paying for a safety net? A satellite location may be a hard sell, but it's the kind of expense that will seem like a waste… until the day it isn't. Decide how long your company can afford to be out of operation and judge the expense accordingly.
3. Have a plan for mobile devices: They aren't always connected and need alternative backup and recovery plans. Those plans need to be secure, but able to function independently of the rest of the DRP.
4. Get users on board: You may consider empowering them to handle some of their own backups. Feeling like they are a part of the DRP themselves will keep them considering implications for it in other things they do.
5. Know where your data centers are: Whether they are yours or third-parties, keep track of them because they will change over time. Keep on top of contracts with vendors that might change locations or even regions of the world.

Good items to consider. I would add that you should consider alternatives. Disasters never pan out exactly as we anticipated. There should be backup plans and alternatives should something not go as expected.

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