{"id":4242,"date":"2020-07-21T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:14:37","slug":"no-crystal-ball-principles-for-disaster-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/no-crystal-ball-principles-for-disaster-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"No Crystal Ball &#8211; Principles for Disaster Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #143268;\">The #COVID19 pandemic highlighted significant gaps businesses face in predicting disasters. Though we wouldn\u2019t advise using a crystal ball, businesses and organizations need some methodology or framework to prepare for a disaster, the future, and the evolution of \u2018business as usual.\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #143268;\">In 17 years partnering with clients, ICAP uses <span style=\"color: #f17300;\">FIVE<\/span> basic principles to guide disaster recovery. If you\u2019re developing a Disaster Recovery plan or considering it, below are some helpful questions to ask yourselves while implementing the principles:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f17300;\">1. Understanding<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What are the foreseeable and unforeseeable disasters?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What are the biggest priorities? What\u2019s urgent, not as urgent, or in a couple days or more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">How much downtime of each system can be handled?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f17300;\">2. Planning<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What\u2019s your Recovery Point Objective?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">How long does recovery take?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What are your objectives? Where will you store the physical plan if all electronic documents are unavailable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">After a system inventory, when can you practice an event?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f17300;\">3. Communicating<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">When? How? What?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">Who is the audience for this communication?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What is each person\u2019s role in this Disaster Recovery?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What\u2019s the hierarchy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">How does this contingency need to be coordinated? As things change?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f17300;\">4. Recovering<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What do we need to recover?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">Who needs to be involved?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What systems and vendors need to be involved for recovery to begin?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">Because everything won\u2019t be perfect, how can we execute well and maintain security?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f17300;\">5. Backing Out<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">How to reverse the DR plan once it\u2019s in place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What is most important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #143268;\">What step needs to go first?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #COVID19 pandemic highlighted significant gaps businesses face in predicting disasters. Though we wouldn\u2019t advise using a crystal ball, businesses and organizations need some methodology or framework to prepare for a disaster, the future, and the evolution of \u2018business as usual.\u2019 In 17 years partnering with clients, ICAP uses FIVE basic principles to guide disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[71,69,70,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}