Abstract: We cannot prevent accident or outages in business even with low probability risk, major outages could destroy a company, if it does not have an effective business continuity plan or disaster recovery plan. It may impact its reputation severely. This paper discusses the importance of such plan with the risk and cost analysis related to disaster recovery. The design of network should be tolerance for failure and consider redundancy for devices which has high impact on the operations. The network team should practice hardening the network equipment's by disabling unsecure protocols and fix vulnerabilities in timely manner. In addition, design a portable communication room that can be used in case of major outage take place. Also define the location of these portables that will help in fast recovery of services. Finally discuss the importance of conducting regular drills and assure the effectiveness of disaster recovery plan.
Keywords: Disaster recovery plan, risk analysis, IT networking, business continuity.
Title: Disaster Recovery Plan for Network Service Provider
Author: Sultan Z Al-Khaldi
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 3, July 2022 - September 2022
Page No: 98-105
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 27-September-2022
