Disaster Recovery

The process of recovering IT systems and services. DR can be seen as a sub-set of business continuity planning. The following are important elements of DR.

• Risk assessment
• Identification of most critical systems
• Putting suitable DR arrangements in place (including suitable authorisations)

Risks within DR

• Over-reliance on one supplier
• Failure to test
• Failure to update plans

 Commitment to resource disaster recovery process