Disaster Prevention

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Disaster Prevention Recovery

• Kyle Anderson
• Nick Kjemperud
• Holly Marshall
• 5/15/07

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Examples

• 9/11 Morgan Stanley
• Outsourced back ups to Brooklyn and N.J.
• Back up and running within hours
• State of Alaska financial server 2.5 billion
• Honest mistake
• 200 million to rebuild
• COB disaster
• Sharing music files
• Hacked back in system and destroyed servers one
  by one
• Rebuild system from scratch, took 5 to 6 weeks
• Installed Firewall

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What is a Disaster?

• Can be
• Natural disasters
• computer crime
• Accidents
• terrorist events
• Always unexpected
• IT is never as ready as they think they are.

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Prevention

• Needs to be a mind set
• In every decision
• Backing up IT, double check
• IT outsourcing
• Third Party
• Separate Location
• Security/Usability Continuum
• Cant be 100 secure
• Components of system
• Security
• Reliability
• Scalability
• COBIT and ITIL framework
• Best practices

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Recovery

• Having a plan
• IT needs to know your system
• Consequences of actions
• If I add something here how is it going to affect
  the system else where.
• Service by Service
• Look at system in parts, not as whole
• Prioritize systems
• Critical first and work your way down
• Hard to test recovery plan
• Theoretically best time to test is busiest day of
  year
• Virtually unexpected
• Few firms want to crash their own systems

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Recovery Plan

• Rely on your plan
• Work with the right people
• Identify the problem, then dig deeper
• Communicate with all stakeholders

• Connect with affected colleagues
• Support your people
• Move the organization ahead
• Take a final look back