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There’s only so much you can prepare for. Accidents can occur at any moment; sneak attacks from bad actors are never expected; and the weather can shift in a heartbeat, creating natural disasters that no one would have been able to fully predict. That’s why it’s best to plan for the worst.
Disaster recovery (DR) is the process an organization follows to restore its IT infrastructure and data recovery after a disruptive event like a natural disaster or cybersecurity attack. The whole point of DR is to ensure that standard business operations can resume as quickly as possible while these procedures focus on restoring technology systems to keep the entire organization functioning with as little disruption as possible.
To give a top-level account of some basic aspects of DR procedures, we’ve created an infographic that should (hopefully) steer you in the right direction for your own policies.
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Just as how there are a million things that can go wrong, there are an equal number of ways to create DR procedures. Unfortunately, resources are finite and best practices would focus on your most common, worst-case scenarios and doing whatever you can to plan for them. Companies who store their data banks in more weather-adverse areas would do well to focus on cloud solutions to keep content accessible during a blackout or fire. Those whose industry is prone to ransomware and cyberattacks could benefit more from response planning and testing to make sure that they haven’t left a back door/window open to tempt hackers or that they are too slow to close it once it’s been noticed.
Ultimately, whatever solution that meets your company’s maximum allotment of downtime or data loss is going to be the best one to use. Being able to keep a company running at all times without any disruption is a great ideal to aspire to, but practicality and realistic expectations are going to be the goal post. Disaster recovery has never been about stopping all bad things from happening, but it can minimize damage when something awful does.
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