Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan

Using the financial services scenario from the Week 2 Learning Team assignment, "Financial Service Security Engagement," create an 8- to 10-page Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan that includes the following:

• Determine the recovery model for your backup and recovery strategy.
• Design the backup strategy, and include a diagram to document your backup strategy. Include recovery steps in your diagram.
• Recommend a schedule for backups.
• Explain how you will test your backup and recovery strategy.
• Recovery sites
• Hot site
• Warm site
• Cold site
• Order of restoration
• Backup types
• Differential
• Incremental
• Snapshot
• Full
• Geographic considerations
• Off-site backups
• Distance
• Location selection
• Legal implications
• Legal implications
• Data sovereignty
• Continuity of operation
• Exercises
• After-action reports
• Failover
• Alternate processing sites
• Alternate business practices