DR and ITCP systems recovery plan

Due to the development of information technologies, more and more key factors of the company’s functioning have moved to the digital environment. Machines, once operated by humans, are now controlled by central systems that can independently make decisions based on machine learning. Accounting and transfers to computers have never before delivered important data so quickly and precisely. The same is true of every process – from marketing and sales to HR and logistics. All activities of our businesses are in contact and depend on the stability of IT systems. Even communication is more often based only on digital solutions.

This fact makes the care for the security of systems, as well as their skilful restoration, a priority for people dealing with the IT infrastructure in a given enterprise. There is no possibility to scale a business without data security.

In the case of the Disaster Recovery plan, depending on the needs and a given solution, in the event of a failure, work based on archived files is more often used than attempts to restore the original data structures. However, practice shows that even frequent testing, the latest methodologies of operation or the best systems, unfortunately, can be unreliable. Therefore, the Disaster Recovery plan assumes possible extensive preparation for unforeseen circumstances.

• creating backup copies based on other infrastructures and in other geographic locations,
• identifying potential risks and system gaps,
• creating documentation and answers to hypothetical challenges,
• establishing a team with competences in the area of disaster recovery,
• testing the effectiveness of security and back-ups, not only their implementation,
• determining the acceptable time to restore operations,
• determining the acceptable time of data acquisition loss (important in the context of backup intervals),
• implementation of the latest solutions in the field of database protection,

We have mentioned failure several times, which of course traditionally alludes to natural disaster, whether culpable or not, human error. Disaster Recovery plans now face a much greater challenge, which is to protect software and company resources from hacker attacks or economic espionage. The number of hacking attacks on large enterprises is doubling every year. It is therefore worth noting that possible protection against the effects of unplanned breakdowns is definitely cheaper than trying to bring the company back to life after a complete paralysis of business activities.