Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery (DR) planning concentrates on the resilience strategies of an organization’s technical infrastructure. The planning addresses all of the necessary hardware, software, and supporting processes and procedures that must be in place to restore data and support the company’s critical business functions in the event of a disaster.

Continuity First helps customers identify strategies to recover data used by the organization while also planning for their valuable technical resources that enable critical operations to continue to operate normally. We also help to establish or augment existing support processes to ensure that disaster recovery functions are included in ongoing processes.

Continuity First’s Disaster Recovery planning services include:

• Disaster Recovery Program Assessments
• Development and recommendation of Disaster Recovery strategies
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of existing Disaster Recovery strategies
• Cost Benefit Analysis of new continuity strategies
• New Disaster Recovery Program development and implementation
• Development and implementation of a Disaster Recovery Organization
• Development and implementation of Disaster Recovery organizational processes, procedures, and documentation
• Organization and execution of simulation exercises that validate the disaster recovery strategies. This can include complete or partial restoration exercises or “tape pull”; exercises
• Development of formal responses to internal and external Disaster Recovery Program audit requests
• Development of metrics models that enables the evaluation of the Disaster Recovery programs and the value received by the organization from their investment
• Development of ongoing program oversight processes, procedures, and improvement initiatives

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