A Quick Guide for Small Organizations and Busy Executives.
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity is often seen by organizations as a costly and complex rocket science that can only be handled by specialists. Often individuals, IT departments and managers of small and medium organizations have the misconception that such things are beyond their expertise or affordability, and perhaps only applicable to large organizations. Many managers still live in the constant fear of how to protect their businesses from various disasters, and who will help. This book clears such doubts and myths to show you how DR&BC can be successfully implemented with a simple combination of qualified internal staff, vendors, external consultants and plain common sense.
This book is a quick guide to business recovery best practices explained in a practical and easy to implement manner. It is designed to be a concise handbook for technical and business staff in various organizations wishing to know what disaster recovery and business continuity is all about.
The entire book is written in a Question & Answer format for easy comprehension and speedy reading with no business jargon. The chapters are also short and just to the point. The answers to the various questions are also concise and rarely exceed one page. Real world examples are used wherever necessary.
Each chapter covers only one specific area of DRP and BCP, and contains a set of basic and essential questions, which the author tries to explain in a simple, jargon free language. Every effort has been made to organize the material into an introductory, self study book.
The book covers:
- Introduction to disaster recovery and business continuity
- Types of disaster
- Data disasters
- Virus disasters
- Communication disasters
- Software disasters
- Data centre disasters
- IT staff disasters
- IT vendor disasters
- IT project failures
- Information security
- Disaster recovery tools
- Introduction to non-IT disasters
- Disaster recovery at home
- How do I get started?
"...focuses on the practical aspects of BC & DR. It allows for the simplifications that are in order for small and medium-sized enterprises..." (Infosecurity, May-June 2007)
Author: Thejendra BS
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
ISBN: 9781905356140
Pages: 280
Format: Soft Cover
Published Date: 5 Feb 07
Availability: Ex Stock
"This is the most straightforward book on business continuity and disaster recovery that I have seen. It should be required reading for every senior executive and board member." Alan Calder
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