Included in the toolkit are the following:

DISASTER RECOVERY & BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN AUDIT

This element is intended to help you to review and audit your disaster recovery or business continuity plan. It covers the status of the plan itself, and explores in some depth the content of the plan…. embracing everything from business function definition to post disaster recovery.

CONTINGENCY AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE

This document is designed to help you assess the contingency status of the supporting IT infrastructure. It comprises a number of discrete modules, covering the following topics:

PC & Small System Contingency
IT Infrastructure Contingency
Application Back Up Practices
Specific Application Contingency
Network Contingency
Power Supply Contingency

CHECKLIST, FRAMWORK & ACTION LIST FOR DISASTER RECOVERY

This document contains the outline steps required in the production of a disaster recovery plan. It details what should normally be included, how it can be structured and so on. It can be used as the basis for the production of a new plan or as a checklist against and existing plan.

DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS

This document is intended to be an aid to those wishing to perform a dependency and time criticality analysis. It covers many resources, but the intention is that the user can, if required, increase the scope of the document by the addition of extra sections.

IMPACT ANALYSIS

How can you sensibly create a plan to cope with disaster if you have not properly considered the consequences of that disaster on your different operations and functions? Essentially, you can't.

This document will assist with the impact analysis process by considering a number of impact scenarios and investigating various aspects of your business or organization.