TechTitans Cloud Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan

TechTitans Cloud Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan

The DREP for TechTitans Cloud describes the procedures to restore IT operations after a disaster. The objective here is to ensure minimum service unavailability and the availability of the most vital ones. This plan assumes that all systems work effectively and efficiently before a disaster. The major elements of this plan will cover all resources, data, software, hardware needs, and off-site data status and integrity.

Resource Requirements

TechTitans requires cloud-based services that guarantee quick recoveries, with resources for virtual servers, cloud storage, and secure data centres. A cloud provider such as AWS or Azure with very high uptime assurances needs to be chosen. With today’s requirements, backup servers and redundancy are crucial in getting the operations up and running fast.

Data Requirements

Precision of data

Data should be correct to avoid discrepancy issues once recovered. Backup data validation on a periodic basis is essential to maintaining data accuracy.

Completeness of Data

Full data should be backed up daily, but incremental backup must also be carried out during the day to capture all ends (Mendonca et al., 2019)

Timely Transfer

Data must be transferred to the cloud as soon as possible after the disaster. This will ensure that critical applications are up and running within a few hours.

Authorization of Data

Secure authorization methodologies, including MFA, should be implemented to ensure that only the right personnel have access to sensitive data after recovery.

Software and Hardware Requirements

All critical software must be backed up on the cloud regularly. A backup solution, such as Veeam or Zerto, automates this process.

Hard Disk Backup: Necessary arrangements should be made to ensure complete backups on the cloud of the on-premises hard disk data to restore applications and databases in the shortest possible time.

Hardware Protection: It is necessary to ensure that critical hardware components – servers and storage have been replicated in the cloud.

Hardware Backup: This cloud-based infrastructure eliminates the need for a backup of physical hardware since virtual machines would be available (Zafar et al., 2017).

Off-Site Data

Data Integrity and Status off-site: The off-site backups should be regularly checked for data integrity and access post-disaster.

Conclusion

The DREP will help TechTitans resume operations with minimum delay after a disaster, thus reducing downtime and preserving data integrity using the cloud solution.

References

Mendonca, J., Andrade, E., Endo, P. T., & Lima, R. (2019). Disaster recovery solutions for IT systems: A Systematic mapping study. Journal of Systems and Software, 149, 511-530.

Zafar, F., Khan, A., Malik, S. U. R., Ahmed, M., Anjum, A., Khan, M. I., … & Jamil, F. (2017). A survey of cloud computing data integrity schemes: Design challenges, taxonomy and future trends. Computers & Security, 65, 29-49.

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Develop a Cloud Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan (DREP) document that addresses how the information technology (IT) department can respond to a disaster. The plan must address how to have the systems up and running in a very short amount of time. Assume that the systems were in a completely efficient state prior to the disaster.

TechTitans Cloud Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan

Please use the following template to write your DREP (you may add to it as needed).

DREP

Resource Requirements

Data Requirements
Precision of Data
Completeness of Data
Timely Transfer
Authorization of Data
Financial Data
Software Requirements
Software Backup
Hard Disk Backup
Hardware Requirements
Hardware Protection
Hardware Backup
Status of Off-Site Data
Integrity of Data