Disaster Recovery & Corporate Survival Strategies
Pre-Emptive Procedures & Countermeasures
Executive Briefings
By Louise Broby
Financial Times / Pearson Education
December 2002
ISBN: 0-273-66162-0
156 Pages, Illustrated, 8 1/4" x 11 3/4"
$245.00 Paper Original
This briefing addresses the technical and business sides of installing back-up systems that are designed to cater not only for terrorist attacks, but also acts of God and other dangers. It examines disaster recovery plans and what is involved in installing and implementing them. Contents include: Backup & Storage: potential disasters, Corporate state of readiness, Information security, Corporate disaster recovery/business continuity plans, Data backup and storage solutions, Spreading of risk: remote backup and storage facilities, Outsourcing/insourcing, Backup & storage costs/disaster costs, Backup and restoration in financial services, The backup and storage industry players and their products/services, Summary of conclusions.
Contents
Executive Summary Introduction The electronic society Greater vulnerability
Defensive tactics Less downtime The financial services sector The rate of
technological change Back up and storage industry growth The benefits of high
tech systems Outsourcing Technology -the way forward
Chapter 1 Backup & storage: potential disasters Introduction Terrorist attacks
– single and multiple strikes Natural disasters Earthquakes Fire Floods Extreme
weather conditions Power failure Lightning Attacks caused by humans intervention
Vulnerability to attack Effects of disasters First line of disaster recovery
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Corporate state of readiness Introduction Recent survey How to cope
with economic fluctuations McKinsey findings Data availability Factors affecting
corporate state of readiness Mobile communications Mobile Recovery units Conclusion
Chapter 3 Information Security Introduction DTI surveys Protective measures
General control procedures Authentication Encryption Firewalls Shelters Conclusion
Chapter 4 Corporate disaster recovery/ business continuity plans Introduction
Definitions Factors affecting the administration of plans Terrorist attacks
Global business continuity The BCM process Insurance Frequency of risks Business
continuity plan BIA Disaster recovery plan Checklist – Disaster recovery plan
BAM Conclusion
Chapter 5 Data backup and storage solutions Introduction Tape backup and restoration
of data Advantages of tape backup Tape formats Tape backup providers New backup
technologies Backup architectures Local systems Storage Area Networks (SAN)
Types of backup SAN management software Benefits of fibre channel networking
Environments The fibre channel market Interoperability standards Wireless
LANs Conclusion
Chapter 6 Spreading of risk: Remote backup and storage facilities: Introduction
The command centre The recovery centre Colocation facilities Duplicate facilities
Emergency facilities Colocation providers Global Switch Colt Exodus Scolocate
Worldport Netstore Advanced security centres: Ernst & Young Business continuity
datacentres (IBM/Telefonica) The role of broadband Conclusion
Chapter 7 Outsourcing/Insourcing/ ASP/MSP/SSP Introduction Trends in outsourcing
Major drivers of outsourcing Survey: top ten drivers of outsourcing Insourcing
Insourcing or outsourcing? ASP MSP SSP WASP Choice of provider Survey Findings
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Back-up & storage costs/disaster costs Introduction Backup and storage
costs ROI and TCO models Cost of downtime Cost of security incidents Under-investment
in IT security by U.K. companies The role of Business Impact Analysis Costs
associated with major disasters Cost estimate surveys Insurance New insurance
dimension Hourly costs of downtime/data losses Conclusion
Chapter 9 Backup and restoration in financial services Overview Pioneers Competitive
advantage Exposure of banks Watchdogs Compliance Vulnerability Multiple terrorist
attacks – September 11 Dealer room recovery service Conclusion
Chapter 10 – The backup & storage industry players and their products/services
Introduction Industry trends - Vendor Alliances September 11 – Vendor assistance
Major players: Industry Associations Conclusion
Chapter 11: Conclusion Summary of conclusions Overall conclusion Glossary
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