AUTHOR: SITI AISYAH KHAIRUL ASWAD
Abstract
The implementation of disaster
recovery planning must undergo several phases that actually will contribute to
the business continuity. The purpose of this paper, it will highlight you with
the four phases of business continuity and disaster recovery. The four phases
are activation phase, recovery phase, business continuity phase and maintain/review
phase. This four phases will explain to you about what you need to do if the
disaster occurs to your organization which is what action should be done by the
organization so the business will still run normally. It is impossible for the
organization to resume their business quickly or smoothly if the disaster
recovery planning is planned through the organization. Besides that, the paper also will enlighten
you with what you should do in the activation phases
which included the activation phases and for the recovery phase it will explain
you about the action taken if the floods happened. In addition on the third
phase which is business continuity it will provide you the replacement of
equipment and relocation. At the phase four which are maintenance part it will
tell about the testing of the plan before the disaster and during the disaster.
Introduction
What
is a disaster recovery planning? Disaster discovery planning is an agreed
document or set of procedure prepared to recover and protect the business
(archive and commercial records center) after an event of disaster. The
procedure must be followed after the organization in the event of disaster. According
to Keith Tilley (1995) Business continuity planning allows an organization to
continue to meet business objectives and customer obligations, and to maintain
its market share. This strategy furnishes each company division with a targeted
action plan to identify how essential business functions, not just computer
functions, will operate despite an unexpected business interruption.
The
purpose of this plan is as a guidance regarding the recovery and the
restoration of the document and any information that may be damage when the
disaster happened. The implementation of this plan is immediate depends on the
how much damage happened. The organization cannot predict on what will happen
in the future, but with the extra careful planning regarding the disaster will
actually minimize the effect of the disaster. The objective of disaster
recovery plan for the company is to minimize downtime and the data loss that
will lead to loss.
The
activation of disaster recovery plan is immediately when any unplanned disaster
occurs in the organization. Disaster is a serious disturbance in the
functioning of a community, society involving widespread human, material, and
economic. The damage cause by the disaster is immeasurable. The disaster is
divided by two types of disaster which are the natural disaster and human made
disaster. A natural disaster is a major event occurs due to the natural process
of the earth. The examples of the natural disaster are including floods,
volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geologic process. Meanwhile,
human made disaster is a disaster from man-made hazards which the threats
having an element of human intent, negligence or error, or involving a failure
through a man-made system. The example of human made disaster is civil
disturbance, terrorism, industrial accidents, chemical spills and much else.
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