Acorn
Disaster Recovery strategy and management
Acorn follows NIST SP 800 34 Revision 1 framework to develop and implement BRDR for its customers. which includes the following.
- Disaster Recovery planning policy: Defines and assigns roles and responsibilities.
- Conduct business impact analysis:Identify business critical systems and vulnerabilities and risks.
- Identify preventive controls:Identify risks, implement controls and countermeasures.
- Create contingency strategy: Formulate methods to ensure critical systems can be brought online quickly.
- Crisis Communication: Formulate methods how Organization will communicate with users during disaster. This also includes how IT teams will communicate with each other during disaster to recover the system.
- Train resources on information system contingency plan: train IT staff on BRDR.
- Test information system contingency plan: Disaster recovery and Business Continuity plans are tested at least once a year and results and finding are documented for FBI/DoD audits.
- Ensure monitoring & management and day to day maintenance: monitoring and reports that disaster recovery and backups are successful on daily basis.
Following the above standards, Organizations can be successful in their NIST audits and if needed, can also get ISO/IEC 27021 and ISO/IEC 22301 certifications.