Disaster Recovery Plan: Minimising Downtime and Maximising Business Resilience
- MARCH 26TH, 2025
- 2min read
A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a plan that ensures your organisation restores access and
functionality to IT infrastructure after a disaster, whether natural or man-made (human action
or error). Disasters that interrupt service and cause data loss can happen anytime without
warning hence the need for a plan to minimize downtime.
Disaster Recovery Controls
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Preventive Control:
This control uses tools and techniques to prevent the disaster from
occurring. This may include backing up data and continuously monitoring your workload
environment for configuration errors and policy compliance. -
Detective Control:
This measure discovers unwanted events and uncovers new potential
threats. This will help you know when a response is necessary. -
Corrective Control:
this control restores data and systems after a disaster or an event. This
includes planning for potential disaster recovery scenarios, ensuring backup operations to
reduce impact, and putting recovery procedures into action.
Key Components of A Disaster Recovery Plan
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Risk Assessment:
Identify potential threats and their possible impact on your business -
Business Impact Analysis:
your critical business functions and their recovery priorities. -
Backup and Recovery:
define how your data will be backed-up, stored and restored -
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Point Objective (RPO):
Set targets on how quickly systems must be restored and how much data loss is acceptable -
Communication Plan:
Establishing clear communication channels and procedures for informing stakeholders. -
Incident Response Plan:
Outline the steps to take in the event of an incident. -
Testing and Training:
Regularly testing the disaster recovery plan and training staff on their roles and responsibilities
Organisations with robust and well-tested disaster recovery strategies can minimize downtime,
achieve faster recovery times, and maximize business resilience.
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