This site is intended to help organizations understand the overall process involved in the creation and maintenance of a disaster recovery or crisis management plan.

It provides some insight into aspects which are commonly overlooked or not fully embraced, such as the need for business impact analysis, and the necessity of periodic contingency reviews/tests.

Finally, it provides access to leading support resources... including tools to build your plan with minimum fuss and check your recovery arrangments more easily.

Building The Plan

The process of actually building the plan need not be as arduous as it sounds.

This relatively new approach utilises a comprehensive set of pre-written templates, making life much easier. In addition, an accompanying guidebook helps to ensure (interactively) that you do not go astray.

Disaster Recovery Testing, Audit & Assurance

Often overlooked or forgotten, the audit and checking stage is one of the most critical. Unless your disaster recovery plan and crisis management arrangements are regularly reviewed and audited, the is a strong possibility that the might fall short when most needed.

Through a series of checklists and questionnaires, this toolkit allows you to fully check your recovery arrangements and even the plan itself. It also provides for dependency analysis, enabling easier identification of the time criticality of your resources.

Emergency Preparedness

Preparing for the day itself cannot be left to chance. Emergency management is a critical element of the overall continuity objective. The The Emergency Management Toolkit helps you address such issues as media management, mailroom defense, bio-chemical attacks, managing the emergency and many more.

Disaster Recovery Policies

Many organizations stipulate continuity and recovery requirements within their own internal security policies. This page outlines an approach to ensure that your policies are of the requisite quality and that they are properly deployed and implemented.

 The Role of Risk Analysis & BIA

Disaster Recovery Planning is of course a vital activity. However, prior to the creation of a disaster recovery plan, it is essential to consider the potential impacts of disaster and to understand the underlying risks.... these are the foundations upon which a sound crisis management plan should be built.

Indeed, it is now widely accepted that both business impact analysis and risk analysis are vital components of the contingency planning process. However, many organizations are unsure of how to approach these important disciplines.

ISO 17799 / BS7799

ISO17799 (BS7799) is an international security standard.... which covers disaster recovery and crisis management planning in some detail. If you are seeking to comply with the standard, this page outlines a proven approach.

Hopefully these pages will be of significant value. If not integral to this site they should at least point you in the right direction. If, however, you need further information to assistance, please contact us directly.