Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931332428 ISBN 13: 9781931332422

Publisher: Rothstein Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Your disaster recovery plan is in place, but as with any plan, you need to test it not only to find holes in the plan, but also confirm the underlying assumptions will work. This is the only book available on this subject and is your guide to the entire testing process. Testing cannot be an afterthought of recovery planning; it must be a powerful, disciplined and efficient implementation tool. This book proves that testing is not an art. It is a science.

Despite the ever-evolving nature of business in the global economy and the corresponding increased number of threats to business continuity, this book contains timeless and technology-independent principles from 30 professionals who have contributed their expertise in 36 detailed chapters. Each author provides checklists and suggest topics to cover in any disaster recovery planning document.

The book is written in four sections with numerous realistic scenarios and provides beneficial guidance for managing the entire testing process.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Key Features

a[ Covers test planning and management, including managementas role, budgeting, justification and politics.

a[ Details test participants and resources including professional development, human factors, the test team, self-assessment, the roles of vendors, consultants, auditors, clients and software.

a[ Quantifies testing methods, including walkthroughs, simulations, joint testing, surprise testing, real disasters as the ultimate test.

a[ Asks what is being tested, including business units, locations, data centers, voice/data communications, trading floors, local area networks.

a[ Covers all other practical considerations such as test monitoring, first-time testing, feedback, reporting and follow up.

a[ Includes a sample test plan.

About the Author:

Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, is President of Rothstein Associates Inc., a management consultancy focused on business continuity, disaster avoidance and recovery, and crisis management, founded in 1985. He was elected Fellow by The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in 1994 in recognition of his substantial contributions to the business continuity industry. Mr. Rothstein has edited, authored or published almost ninety books, including over 80% of all books on business continuity published since 2000. He has published over 200 magazine articles.

Mr. Rothstein is a frequent speaker on business continuity, disaster avoidance, disaster recovery and crisis management for top corporate management and at industry conferences. He is sought after by the media: he has been interviewed on dozens of radio and television programs, and by well over a hundred newspapers and magazines worldwide.

He is Publisher of The Rothstein Catalog on Disaster Recovery, the industry s principal resource for hundreds of books, research reports, software tools and videos, since 1989. He is editor and publisher of the Business SurvivalTM Newsletter, a resource for over 13,000 executive decision-makers worldwide. He has led numerous public and custom seminars on Business Continuity and related issues for the American Management Association, MIS Training Institute, Hitachi Data Systems, Wang Laboratories, Data-Tech Institute and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rothstein Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1931332428
• ISBN 13: 9781931332422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Rothstein Philip Jan