DIASTER PREPAREDNESS

IT Recovery Planning

It takes just a virus attached to an e-mail message to bring down the entire IT infrastructure of an organization. As businesses and governments move quickly towards paperless administration, our dependence on technology exposes us to new and frightening vulnerabilities. Developing a full understanding of these vulnerabilities is the first step in effective IT Disaster Planning.

Axzons assists organizations with all-hazards IT Disaster Planning which serves as a sub-plan of the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). Our skilled project team composes a detailed inventory of systems that are essential to day-to-day business operations. Such systems include telephones, voicemail, fax, data lines, network access, Internet access and wireless communications/PDAs as well as application software and hardware.

Axzons then conducts a working group session to prioritize “mission critical” systems. During this assessment, supporting hardware, operating systems and applications software are documented as well as vendor information, personnel resources and backup frequency and storage.

The result of IT Disaster Planning is a strategy drafted in a concise “checklist” format, an effective method of implementing emergency response activities. This checklist provides the framework for developing detailed technical recovery procedures, and can be used as a guideline for testing these procedures before an event strikes.

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