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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals

Book • Second Edition2014

Authors:

Susan Snedaker and Chris Rima

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals

Book • Second Edition2014

 

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    Chapter 1 - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Overview

    Pages 1-28

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    Chapter 2 - Legal and Regulatory Obligations Regarding Data and Information Security

    Pages 29-42

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    Case Study: Legal Obligations Regarding Data Security

    Pages 43-50

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    Chapter 3 - Project Initiation

    Pages 51-119

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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Energy/Utilities

    Pages 121-150

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    Chapter 4 - Risk Assessment

    Pages 151-224

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    Chapter 5 - Business Impact Analysis

    Pages 225-274

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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Healthcare

    Pages 275-336

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    Chapter 6 - Risk Mitigation Strategy Development

    Pages 337-367

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    Chapter 7 - Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan Development

    Pages 369-411

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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Financial Services

    Pages 413-426

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    Chapter 8 - Emergency Response and Recovery

    Pages 427-449

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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

    Pages 451-478

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    Chapter 9 - Training, Testing, and Auditing

    Pages 479-504

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    Chapter 10 - BC/DR Plan Maintenance

    Pages 505-519

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    Appendix A - Risk Management Checklist

    Pages 521-525

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    Appendix B - Crisis Communications Checklist

    Pages 527-528

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    Appendix C - Emergency Response and Recovery Checklists

    Pages 529-535

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    Appendix D - Business Continuity Checklist

    Pages 537-541

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    Appendix E - IT Recovery Checklists

    Pages 543-546

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    Appendix F - Training, Testing, and Auditing Checklists

    Pages 547-548

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    Appendix G - BC/DR Plain Maintenance Checklist

    Pages 549-550

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    Glossary of Terms

    Pages 551-563

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    Index

    Pages 565-577

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Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific. Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in the Gulf Coast. Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Houses and Businesses in Colorado. Tornado Touches Down in Missouri. These headlines not only have caught the attention of people around the world, they have had a significant effect on IT professionals as well. The new 2nd Edition of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). With distributed networks, increasing demands for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, and the widespread risks to the security of personal, confidential and sensitive data, no organization can afford to ignore the need for disaster planning.

Author Susan Snedaker shares her expertise with you, including the most current options for disaster recovery and communication, BCDR for mobile devices, and the latest infrastructure considerations including cloud, virtualization, clustering, and more. Snedaker also provides you with new case studies in several business areas, along with a review of high availability and information security in healthcare IT.

Don’t be caught off guard—Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals, 2nd Edition , is required reading for anyone in the IT field charged with keeping information secure and systems up and running.

Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific. Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in the Gulf Coast. Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Houses and Businesses in Colorado. Tornado Touches Down in Missouri. These headlines not only have caught the attention of people around the world, they have had a significant effect on IT professionals as well. The new 2nd Edition of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). With distributed networks, increasing demands for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, and the widespread risks to the security of personal, confidential and sensitive data, no organization can afford to ignore the need for disaster planning.

Author Susan Snedaker shares her expertise with you, including the most current options for disaster recovery and communication, BCDR for mobile devices, and the latest infrastructure considerations including cloud, virtualization, clustering, and more. Snedaker also provides you with new case studies in several business areas, along with a review of high availability and information security in healthcare IT.

Don’t be caught off guard—Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals, 2nd Edition , is required reading for anyone in the IT field charged with keeping information secure and systems up and running.

Key Features

  • Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human-caused hazards, and accidental / technical hazards
  • Extensive disaster planning and readiness checklists for IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, servers and desktops
  • Clear guidance on developing alternate work and computing sites and emergency facilities
  • Actionable advice on emergency readiness and response
  • Up-to-date information on the legal implications of data loss following a security breach or disaster
  • Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human-caused hazards, and accidental / technical hazards
  • Extensive disaster planning and readiness checklists for IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, servers and desktops
  • Clear guidance on developing alternate work and computing sites and emergency facilities
  • Actionable advice on emergency readiness and response
  • Up-to-date information on the legal implications of data loss following a security breach or disaster

Details

ISBN

978-0-12-410526-3

Language

English

Published

2014

Copyright

Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Imprint

Syngress

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Authors

Susan Snedaker

Chris Rima