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Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC): Maintaining the environment involves maintenance of the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) mechanisms. This is vital in computer and server rooms, which should be kept to a temperature of 60 – 75 degrees Fahrenheit or 15 – 23 degrees Celsius, and the humidity should be sustained between 40 and 60 percent. The humidity ...

There are different types of fire extinguishers that can handle the suppression of different types of fires. If an extinguisher is used improperly or the wrong type of fire extinguisher is used, the fire could escalate and intensify instead of being suppressed. Additionally, fire extinguishers are to be used only when a fire is still in the beginning stage. for ...

Natural disasters are a given threat every organization needs to be prepared for. Earthquakes, tornadoes, or manmade disasters such as arson or explosions are incidents that jeopardize the very existence of the organization. Every organization requires business continuity and disaster recovery planning to manage the impact of such disasters. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning involve the preparation, testing, and ...

The Scope and Plan Initiation is the first stage in the creation of a business continuity plan (BCP). It involves drafting the scope for the plan and the other elements needed to define the framework of the plan. This phase should include careful analysis of the organization’s operations and support services as it relates to crisis response and planning. Scope ...

Continuity Planning is concerned with the development and implementation of a continuity strategy to reduce the damage a risk could inflict if it occurs. The first step of Continuity Planning is to develop a strategy that fills the gapbetween the Business Impact Assessment and Continuity Planning stage. During the strategy development stage, the BCP team must identify which risks will ...

Once the BCP team has carried out the design phase, the BCP document should be submitted to the organization’s senior management, including the chief executive officer (CEO), chairman, and board of Directors, for approval (unless senior management was involved throughout the development stages of the plan). The BCP team should provide a detailed description of the plan’s purpose and specific ...

Documentation is a crucial step in the BCP process and carries three important benefits: Documentation provides a written continuity document for BCP team members to reference in the event of an emergency, and in the absence of senior BCP team members to monitor the process. Documentation functions as an informational archive of the BCP process that will guide future ...

The purpose of a Business Impact Assessment (BIA) is to produce a document that outlines the resources that are critical to the continued sustainability of the organization, existing vulnerabilities that could compromise those resources, probability that those threats will occur and sustained impact on the organization. Adverse effects could be financial or operational. A vulnerability assessment is a vital element ...

Natural Disasters Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is the outlining of all the potential disasters the organization might encounter, and development of processes required to contend with realization of those disasters. An effective DRP should be designed to run on a series of processes that kick into gear with minimal delay. Key personnel should receive comprehensive training to ensure a smooth ...

There are a number of action steps to be taken in designing an efficient disaster recovery plan that will facilitate the quick restoration of normal business operations and the resumption of activity at the main business location. These action steps include: Prioritizing business units Crisis management Emergency communications Actual recovery process (This recovery phase could include features such as cold ...