IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies 1st Edition by Peter H. Gregory (PDF)

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If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you’re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it’s easy to put it off. After all, where do you start? IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies shows you how to get started by creating a safety net while you work out the details of your major plan. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you’re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here’s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep your plans updated.This easy-to-understand guide will help youPrepare your systems, processes, and people for an organized response to disaster when it strikesIdentify critical IT systems and develop a long-range strategySelect and train your disaster recovery teamConduct a Business Impact AnalysisDetermine risks to your business from natural or human-made causesGet management supportCreate appropriate plan documentsTest your planSome disasters get coverage on CNN, and some just create headaches for the affected organization. With IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies, you’ll be prepared for anything from hackers to hurricanes!

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Create a safety net while you work out your major planIdentify critical IT systems, develop a long-range strategy, and train your peopleSome disasters get coverage on CNN — some just create headaches for the affected organization. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you’re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here’s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep them updated.Discover how to:Select your disaster recovery teamConduct a Business Impact AnalysisDetermine risksGet management supportCreate appropriate plan documentsTest your plan From the Back Cover Create a safety net while you work out your major planIdentify critical IT systems, develop a long-range strategy, and train your peopleSome disasters get coverage on CNN — some just create headaches for the affected organization. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you’re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here’s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep them updated.Discover how to:Select your disaster recovery teamConduct a Business Impact AnalysisDetermine risksGet management supportCreate appropriate plan documentsTest your plan About the Author Peter H. Gregory, CISA, CISSP, is the author of fifteen books on security and technology, including Solaris Security (Prentice Hall), Computer Viruses For Dummies (Wiley), Blocking Spam and Spyware For Dummies (Wiley), and Securing the Vista Environment (O’Reilly). Peter is a security strategist at a publicly-traded financial management software company located in Redmond, Washington. Prior to taking this position, he held tactical and strategic security positions in large wireless telecommunications organizations. He has also held development and operations positions in casino management systems, banking, government, non-profit organizations, and academia since the late 1970s. He’s on the board of advisors for the NSA-certified Certificate program in Information Assurance & Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, and he’s a member of the board of directors of the Evergreen State Chapter of InfraGard. Read more

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⭐If you find yourself suddenly in charge of creating a disaster recovery plan for your organization, this is the book for you. And since we’re already assuming you’ve been tasked with this, we can also assume you won’t have to sell management on the idea. Follow these steps.Step 1. Order it and read it cover to cover.Step 2. Follow the book’s instructions on creating a high-level Business Impact Analysis of the business. The BIA will allow you to decide what parts of the organization to tackle first.Step 3. Follow the instructions on creating an interim disaster recovery plan.The above may take a month or two in a medium size enterprise of a few hundred people. Afterwards, you’ll be ready to embark on the actual planning. Reread the book and pay special attention to the following.* How to conduct business impact analyses (BIAs) for each line of business in your enterprise so you can understand what are the business line’s key elements, viz. resources, people, relationships with other departments, with clients, and with vendors (a.k.a. dependencies).* If you are a technology person, learn to focus on the _business_ process. You already know about backups, server clusters, and database layers. Learn what those ERP applications are for.* If you are a business side person, learn about backups, server clusters, and database layers. Learn what makes those ERP applications reliable and fast.* In either case, learn to map business processes to your technology systems.Finally, the “Parts of Ten” section is a good resource for finding out what tools are available out there to create DR plans and BIAs, e.g. Strohl Systems’ Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS).Vincent Poirier, Tokyo

⭐There are a number of areas that you have to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery. This goes over quick solutions as well as long term solutions. If you are starting from scratch, this walks you through an interim solution and then give you a process to work toward a permanent solution that includes maintaining that solution.

⭐The book is pretty simple, straight forward and clear, the content is special for “dummies” or for those professionals who are starting on Disaster Recovery Planning and want fast introduction on the subject (and like my case need to start a DRP project really fast).With this book you’ll be able to start a (Interim) Disaster Recovery Project in a fast and easy way.Even though you can find most of the basic information in the book on a web search and investigation, it is good to have a single book for consulting, that concentrates all that matters most.The only downside is when people in the office ask me – “where do you learned that”, its a little complicated to say “in a for dummies book”, people don’t usually understand that for dummies book can be very good books.

⭐increased my knowledge in this area of practice

⭐Based on other reviews I expected a bit more of it, especially on the procedures, connection with Business Continuity and examples. Nevertheless, it has all the nuts and bolts needed for you to get an all round view of DR.

⭐Wasn’t quite what I wanted.

⭐Worked Great.

⭐A very comprihensive bookIncludes many years of expirienseI wish it would have contained more HA and current technologies arcitecutures

⭐perfect for planning my DR exercise

⭐Great item arrived next day

⭐Originally bought as a gag. Turns out it is a good introduction to non-technical clients.

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