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DRP Plan

In the unlikely event of disaster, the Enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Management (EBCDRM) team will execute the recovery procedures in the following order:

• Move operations to the Disaster Recovery Backup Site and the Emergency Operations

Center.

• Return data processing activities to the primary facilities or another computer facility.

• Restore systems per the criticality ratings.

• Restore critical applications to the most current date available on backup tapes stored

offsite.

• Execute the plan within 1hr of any disaster scenario as mentioned in the activation

criteria.

Activation Criteria

In this section, we will go over the high-level scenarios when to declare a disaster and what

procedures and activities will be executed. Some of the major triggering events include:

• Natural calamities that disrupt business operations for more than 1hr.

• Data breach of customer, financial and insurance data.

• Power outage impacting data center servers.

• Theft, vandalism of company resources, confidential design, business & trade secrets.

Disaster Response Strategies

This section lists out the scenarios and applicable recovery strategies and expectations –

expected response results and as well as what to expect post disaster.


Scenario Planned Response Expected Result Post-Disaster Expectations

Data created in the hot-site to be


Loss of access to the 75% of all critical functions will be
Activate the hot-site restored to production once the main
corporate main site achieved at the hot-site in 4hrs
site becomes available

1.) Block all incoming traffic to the Update the main servers with the data
current servers in 1 hr from the emergency servers.
100% traffic catered by the servers in
Data Breach 2.) Route traffic to the emergency Archive data on the emergency servers
the emergency data center
servers in 2hrs for future reference
3.) Activate forensices immediately Clean-up the emergency servers.
Update the main servers with the data
Inform Redmond fire station
from the emergency servers.
Fire accident in the Disconnect power supply
All traffic will be restired in 1 hr Archive data on the emergency servers
Dara center Route traffic to emergency data
for future reference
center
Clean-up the emergency servers.

Inform police
No injuries or loss to employees Employee morale and confidence to be
Terrorist Activity Secure the facility with vault doors
Operations to be restored in 5hrs restored
Transfer employees to safe bunker

Figure 2. Disaster Response Strategies

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