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Discussion
In 250 words total, answer the questions below with 4 evidence base scholarly articles. APA format.
Based on the readings this week,
1. Discuss some common strategies and pitfalls you have seen with business continuity.
2. Discuss some common strategies and pitfalls you have seen with disaster recovery plans.
Replies
In 400 words total, replying to the two posts below. Each reply must be 200 words for post 1 and post 2.
J.W POST 1
Good eveing,
Ensuring that the unit you are with has a disater recovery and a business continuity plan is very important to ensuring the safety of your data. They are the essentials frameword that ensure that when the worse happens, the unit can maintain operations. Business continuity focuses on keeping business functions operational during and after a disaster, while disaster recovery centers on restoring IT systems and data. A robust approach requires integrating these two components to address organizational resilience comprehensively.
When it comes to the different strategies in both a disater recovery and a business continuity plan, the first thing you need to do is to identify any and all critial systems. Something that if it were to go down, that you and/or other units would be effected by the outage. The second would be to have redundant systems and data backups. This ensures data integrity and availability, so that if your data center gets knocked down, all the data you have won’t be corrupt since it would have been split across multiple areas (Peiter, 2013). The final strategy would be to test, test, and test. Along with performing updates, you would want to simulate as many drills and scenarios that you can to ensure everything remains effective (Caballar & Stryker, 2024).
Now, looking at it from the other perspective. What are some pit falls of a disater recovery and a business continuity plan. The first pit fall I have seen is overlooking non-IT dependencies. Both of these plans often focus on IT recovery a lot heavier than other divisons. They should also consider the physical infrastructure or even human resources as well. The next pitfall would be not doing what I mentioned above, which is test, test, and test. Failure to test plans regularly can result in unaddressed vulnerabilities. And the final pit fall i have seen is the lack of employee training. If all the members on this plan are unprepared or even unaware of what there roles would be, than you can have no hope of those two plans being successful (Peiter, 2013).
V/R
Jacob W
Caballar, R. D., & Stryker, C. (2024, June 17).
What is business continuity? IBM Think.
Peltier, T. R. (2013). Information security fundamentals. Auerbach Publishers, Incorporated.
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A.G POST 2
Hello class,
Before starting a business, it’s a smart move to think about how you’ll handle unexpected problems and to keep updating those plans as your business grows. Two key plans to know about are the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). They might sound similar, but they’re not quite the same. A DRP is all about getting your systems back up and running as quickly as possible after something goes wrong like a storm, a cyberattack, or any other kind of disaster. The goal is to keep downtime and losses to a minimum. DRPs are pretty common because they give businesses a clear way to bounce back when things don’t go as planned.
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) focus on getting your tech like servers and data backup and running after something big happens, like a data center outage. Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), on the other hand, are about keeping your daily operations going at your main business location when things go wrong. The catch is, BCPs are often harder to get approved because the impact doesn’t always seem urgent. If a data center crashes, it’s clearly a big deal with major financial consequences. But if your office can’t function for a while, it might just seem like a temporary inconvenience. That’s why some leaders take their chances and hope insurance will cover the losses. The problem is, insurance can’t fix lost time, broken customer trust, or a business that couldn’t recover fast enough. Without a strong BCP in place, a company could struggle or even fail after a serious disruption.
