Nariah Allen, Danielle Ballew, Darrell Harman, Georgeanna Holmes

A company's ability to continue offering goods and services even during a major disruption.

» “Less-than-perfect” business continuity program » Five of the most common reasons why business continuity planning initiatives fail include: 1)Failing to Understand Organization 2)Executing Methodology Instead of Managing a Program 3)Too Much Business Continuity Jargon 4)Unrealistic recovery objectives 5)Failing to create a culture

» Underestimating the Physical Scale of a Possible Disaster » Underestimating Recovery Effort » Obsolete and Long Lead Time Equipment » Unrealistic Quick Ship Agreements » Redundancy that isn’t Redundant » Backups for non-IT Equipment

» Loss of Passwords » Undocumented Procedures and Ill-defined Responsibilities » Limitations of Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Backup Generators » Missing Dependencies and Recovery Tasks » Competition for Outside Resources

» Disaster Recovery involves the process of saving data so that, in the event of a disaster, it can be recovered. ˃Such as storing data in a secondary location » Sometimes the “recovery of data” is the only issue that managers have time to focus on. ˃however it is just a piece of a puzzle. » Business continuity does not just revolve around data and the recovery of data, it revolves around the business/recovery of the business.

» Universities weather the storm

» Hurricanes and Snowstorms ˃Lessons Learned

» Person Independent » Prioritize Systems » Lines of Communications » Location Specific » Testing and Refreshing

» Disaster Recovery ˃Take me back to yesterday » Business Continuity ˃Keeping the doors open for tomorrow

» April 20,2010: Off-shore oil drilling rig exploded 41 miles from the Louisiana Coast » Oil leaked for 3 months between 35,000 – 65,000 barrels a day » Ended in July with a total of 4.9 million gallons being spilled » Biggest offshore oil spill in history

» How much do you think it cost to clean up the spill? » What would you have done?

Practice can be almost perfect How much does it cost to fix the damages? Value vs Volume

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