IT Disaster Recovery
IT Systems Audit
RiskLogic facilitates IT system audits to analyse existing Disaster Recovery, IT and communications capabilities to obtain a true measure of an organisation’s systems and preparedness. This process often includes:
- Inspections of relevant client sites.
- Interviews with appropriate staff and 3rd party vendors as required.
- Familiarisation with current infrastructure environment including hardware, software, business systems, network, communications, telephony, data backup & restore processes.
- Review of existing DR policies, procedures and other relevant documentation.
- Review of any committed infrastructure project activity.
- Review of relevant standards, compliance or regulatory requirements.
- Review of any existing DR/Business Continuity measures.
Gap Analysis
On completion of an IT Systems Audit RiskLogic can perform a gap analysis to measure an organisation’s current level of preparedness against its ‘business’ requirements. All key deficiencies are clearly identified in a succinct report and practical recommendations provided. This includes rationale, comparative options, source information and cost estimates. Recommendations serve as a key roadmap for future planning and often include consideration for:
- IT related hardware and infrastructure
- Software and application requirements
- Disaster avoidance systems and solutions.
- Procedural requirements
- Property related requirements
- Alternate site locations
- General business continuity, risk and crisis management requirements
- Other critical dependencies.
Disaster Recovery Plans
RiskLogic can develop a practical, integrated Disaster Recovery Plan for an organisation to support their infrastructure capabilities and business recovery requirements. A RiskLogic Disaster Recovery Plan will enable an organisation to commence effective recovery of specific IT functions immediately following a business disruption. This may include:
- Incident classification and assessment tools.
- Checklists and response protocols.
- IT management & reporting structures.
- Specific Disaster Recovery roles & responsibilities.
- IT communication procedures and strategies.
- Links between Business Continuity program.
- Step-by-step action plans outlining key recovery tasks.
- Supporting documentation and detailed technical procedures.
- Training and testing requirements.
- Maintenance schedule for ongoing program review.
