Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Management Planning: A Resource for Ensuring Ongoing Enterprise Operations

If one segment of your business were to disappear in an instant would your business survive? What about disruptions like power outages, vendor or provider bankruptcy, denial of service attacks on your servers, computer viruses, and employee sabotage, cyber terrorism?

If you cannot honestly say that you have a viable plan that will have your business up and running with little disruption within hours or days, then you need this book. This book covers the latest networking considerations of disaster recovery and business continuity planning that include Internet, intranet, service providers and client server based applications that are the core of today's businesses.

Appendices are provided on the accompanying CD-ROM.

This book will provide:
1. An overview of what a good business continuity plan should entail;
2. How to evaluate your plan;
3. How to build a plan for your current and future business needs;
4. How to test your plan to ensure it is effective; and
5. How to maintain the plan to ensure it will keep up with your growing business, and changes in global technology.

Albert J. Marcella Jr., Ph.D., CQA, CCP, CDP, CFSA, CISA, is the president of Business Automation Consultants, a global information technology (IT) and management-consulting firm. Dr. Marcella designs, implements, and conducts management consulting and IT audits for an international clientele, and is an internationally recognized speaker in the areas of IT security, audit, and control. Prior to the formation of his own firm in 1984, Dr. Marcella was employed by the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation where he established and formalized the IT audit function.

Dr. Marcella’s additional professional experiences include providing internal systems consulting services to the Hartford Insurance Group, and the design and execution of operational, financial, and information technology audits for the Uniroyal Corporation, both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Marcella researches and writes extensively in the information technologies field and has over 20 information technology/audit and security titles published to date. His dissertation research examined the relationship between ethics and auditor judgment.

Dr. Marcella is The Institute of Internal Auditors’ (IIA) Leon R. Radde Educator of the Year (2000) Award recipient, and is a Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Member of The IIA.

Carol Stucki, CISA, is a senior IT auditor with the University of California. Prior to joining the audit department at the University of California, Carol provided management and IT audit consulting services, conducted technical audit reviews, and held positions in IT project management. Prior to consulting, Carol worked as a manager of strategic project management and as a technical producer for PurchasePro, an e-commerce company. Carol has also worked for such companies as Arthur Anderson, Perot Systems, and GTE (now Verizon).