Consider a large health clinic with a dozen doctors and approximately 80 nurses and support staff. The building houses a small computer room with 4 servers to support the clinic’s patient database, email services, file storage and medical applications and all laptops and desktops have a specialized medical client application and are encrypted with licensed full disk encryption software. As an IT consultant supporting this clinic, you need to develop part of a Disaster Recovery plan covering 4 keys areas.
You need to specifically address how to quickly accomplish the following to enable operations within 24-48 hours:
An alternate location to operate from
Replacement of damaged/lost servers, workstations and laptops and business applications installed on them.
Backup, Security and Restoration of office and patient information
Methods of communicating with staff during the disaster
Be sure to be proactive in your plan, that is what a plan is for.