Welcome back. So, in week four we look at the interaction of week four The first thing what we're going to look at is what is a disaster and why we need a disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning? Okay? So, as we all know that disaster means that some of our critical business processes cannot continue If critical business process cannot continue for long period of time we call it as a disaster So, we had to prepare for disasters We can't wait until disaster happens to decide what to do because after disaster every minute counts and we want to run our business as soon as possible We want to treat our employees if in case they're injured as soon as possible So, a quickly response to a disaster would make a difference of whether that we can survive after disaster or not so that's very important in the event of a disaster So, we'll talk about handling disaster recovery planning So, we look at the first step The first step in the BCP planning is to make sure that punishment on board so they have to allocate funding they have to decide team leader and they should have developed team members for the BCP/DR plan In any BCP/DR, plan the most important step is step number two we'll call it business impact analysis I'm going to explain this business impact analysis in very much detail to you all in the coming few videos What is important? What we do in the business impact analysis? The Introduction to Business Impact Analysis basically we first look at what are the most critical business processes to organization So, to do that as compliance officers we can't do it by ourselves we should talk to the line managers senior management and ask him to tell us or if we could asked them to tell us that which parts are the most critical The next step what we do in the business impact analysis is to find out what are the resources human material resources, support to be so critical those critical business processes Finally, we'll look at some important recover time terminologies we call it as RPO RTO, WRT, MTD, and STO I'm going to explain all these terms very much in detail because all these terms have a good understanding of all these terms are extremely important for us to develop a good BCP/DR planning Okay. So, now, let's look at step number three next The step number three is basically main focus is in the event of a disaster there's a high possibility that our primary location may destroy it it could be earthquake, it could be flooding we may not be able to continue our business in our poor primary location So, if we can't continue business in our primary location we should think about having other location So, we can't wait until the primary location is not available to look for alternative location that's something we have to think before hand That's very important otherwise it will take much longer time for us to continue our business or start our business So, there are different recovery strategies in the event our primary site is not available First one we call it redundant processing site and then second we call hot site warm site, cold site, mobile site and there's one more we call reciprocal agreement as well So, I'm going to explain all these recovery strategies what are the important considerations that we have to make in the recovery strategies? What would be the best recovery strategy in a given situation? So, that's something that you guys should have a very good understanding So, that's something that I'm going to explain very much in detail in the coming videos about step number three that's very important So, step number four to seven of course important here So, if we look at now we discuss step number one, two, three step before we talk about design and development So, what are the considerations we need to have when we design the plan when developing? At the same time we have lot of BCP/DR supporting team members so we should give them training So, that's very important that's our main consideration of step number five Step number six we talk about implementation and testing So, we are going to look at different kinds of testing First we call paper testing and then preparedness testing and full operational testing Testing is extremely important Be prepared to plan we don't know whether the plan is effective or not if we don't test it If we don't test and we don't want to test our plan after disaster happens and if there's any weakness of the plan definitely we'll be in a big problem of recovering in a disaster So, regular testing is extremely important so we'll look at in step number six how we do the testing Finally, we should monitor and maintain our plan So, that is a person called BCP coordinator that person is responsible for the maintenance plan So, we look at the most important things that we have to have maintenance Then finally, we talk about in this module back up and restoration As you all know that no matter how good our infrastructure is how good our hardware is how good our software is how good our processes is how good our system is if we don't have data we cannot continue business So, back up and restoration is extremely important so we should make huge attention to that back up and restoration So, this comes to back up So, we look at backup policies Every organization should have backup policies So, we are going to look at those backup policies in this week So, mainly we look at the media what kind of media that we should make back ups and then which backup method that we should do We're looking at different back up methods and look at the advantages and disadvantages of different back up methods Then once we make back ups there're those media can be reused what are the different reuse media methods? Then we have to store the backup data Then we should decide which are the best location to store it and what are the considerations we have to have in terms of restoration and then access to the back up types as well So, this is going to be the most important concepts that we are going to learn in this module Look forward to see you guys soon
