Disaster Recovery
Getting back to ‘business as usual’
What is IT disaster recovery?
Disaster Recovery involves real-time file backups, where a file is updated on a clients network, then instantly duplicated into a secure environment. It means that you can regain speedy access and functionality to your core business IT data and infrastructure after a disaster, man-made or other, strikes.
At Island Computers, we focus on three key areas of Disaster Recovery.
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Disaster Recovery Testing
- Business Impact Analysis
What we do
Top 3 Disaster Recovery Plans
A disaster recovery (DR) plan is a formal document created by an organisation that contains detailed instructions on how to respond to a disruptive event such as natural disasters, power outages, and cyber-attacks. The plan involves strategies to minimise the effects of a disaster, allowing you to operate or quickly resume key operations.
A successful DR plan
- Addresses all types of operational disruptions
- Disruptions can include power outages, telephone system outages, temporary loss of access to a facility due to a low-impact non-destructive fire, flood or other event. A DR plan should be organised by type of disaster and location. It must contain scripts (instructions) that can be implemented by anyone.
- Counteracts increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks
- Many attacks can stay undetected for well over 200 days. Within that time, attackers can plant malware that finds its way into the backup sets – infecting even recovery data. Attacks may stay dormant for weeks or months, allowing malware to propagate throughout the system. Even after an attack is detected, it can be extremely difficult to remove malware that is so embedded in an organisation.
- Disaster Recovery Testing
- Disaster Recovery Testing is the process of ensuring that an organisation can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after a disruption to its IT services.
- A disaster recovery test (DR test) checks each step of a disaster recovery plan is outlined in an organisation’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process.
