Disaster Recovery Planning

Soetam Rizky

JUST IMAGINE……

Great fire happen at 1st floor of Bhakti Persada or

Rektorat Building……

An electricity failure at 2nd floor of Bhakti Persada

building while all employee is in new year’s holiday……

All IT staffs strike for higher salary and they changed all servers’ password as well

as shut down all of them…..

Broken hearted student/lecturer bring a bomb and explode it in

server room……

Leak air conditioner make server room flooded and electricity failure happen. Then all server’s harddisk

blown up……

Still not enough to imagine ?

So ?

You still think that disaster recovery planning is not

important ?

Disaster Recovery Planning

What is “Disaster” ?

From where is disaster come ?

Are we care about it ?

A disaster can best be defined as the occurrence of any event that causes a

significant disruption in IT capabilities. It is typically an event that disrupts the normal

course of business to the extent that monetary losses can be quantified

(Maiwald,2002).

•Disaster not only be happen from nature anger, for example : earthquake, tsunami and flood. •However, the disaster can also happen from non-technical factors, for instance : electricity failure, hardware failure, virus or even human errors

•Information system implementation rarely care about disaster recovery planning. •Eventhough datas from the application is very important for company, high level management seems ignoring all of the risk that can be happened in their company when the disaster come.

DRP Components

Cost of Failure

Initiation of DRP

Organization Type

Management Perspective

Organization’s Culture

Management’s Commitment

Cost Commitment

Training Commitment

Internal audit Commitment

Creating DRP

Brainstorming Questions Sample

• Is the campus environment already consider about safety for its personnel’s and customers ?

• Is there already training/simulation or established procedure to handle disaster that already announced ?

• Is there any insurance that guarantee people, environment and information system data when disaster come ?

Brainstorming Questions Sample

• Is main part of information system already being located at “safe” place ?

• Is there remote backup of information system database ?

• Is there any corporate officer’s backup if all IT department’s staff is gone ?

Things to remember in DRP

• DRP will always be unique in organization

• DRP is not about information system audit, but it is about commitment

Things to remember in DRP

• DRP is not just for IT department, but it will be all corporate officer’s responsibility

• DRP is not just a written standard, but it must be trained and done

So ?

When we must start creating DRP ?

A.S.A.P

No one hope for disaster,but we must prepare for it

Good DRP ?

Ikan hiu nabrak betonThank you for your attention

Questions/Comments ?