Disaster Recovery Paper

Disaster Recovery

It is important to assure the continuous and proper operation of information systems in business continuity planning and information recovery in disaster recovery.

For details on issues to consider in Business Impact Analysis, refer to  Contingency planning guide for federal systems  NIST 800-34.

Use this  non-graded activity  to test your knowledge.

Case Assignment

In this project, you will set recovery objectives for a web-based e-mail and customer applications used by a private organization. The recovery objectives to be set are Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Consistency Objective (RCO), and Recovery Capacity Objective (RCapO).

You need to justify the recovery targets you set. You should employ reasonableness for the organization and not go “overboard” and suggest an elaborate scheme that few organizations would find economically feasible.

An e-mail application was chosen as the context, as this should be a clearly understood application upon which to apply the concepts of recovery targets.

Assignment Expectations

After reviewing the above materials, write a 4- to 5-page paper:

Address the following issues in your paper:

Recovery standards for a web-based email system used by private organization for communication with customers and internally: Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Consistency Objective (RCO), and Recovery Capacity Objective (RCapO).

Required Readings:

Snedaker, S. and Rima, C. (2014). Business continuity and disaster recovery planning for IT planning, 2nd edition. Syngress Publishing. ISBN:9780124105263. Books 24/7 version. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Wallace, M. and Webber, L. (2018). The disaster recovery handbook: A step-by-step plan to ensure business continuity and protect vital operations, facilities, and assets. 3rd edition. Chapters 6-20. Books 24/7 version. Available in the Trident Online Library.