Disaster Preparedness: Is Your Investment Firm Ready?

When you think of a disaster…

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2011 – Year of Extreme Weather

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January December

Snow buries NYC

January

Tornado strikes Joplin, MO

May 22

Summer heat scorches TX, OK

Earthquake shakes East Coast

Aug 23

Hurricane Irene bears down

Aug 26-27

2011

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

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Disaster Recovery ObjectivesRecovery Point Objective (RPO)– The point in time to

which you must recover data as defined by your organization

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)– The duration of time

within which a business process must be restored after a disaster

• Nightly Backups

RPO = 24 hrs

• Snapshots

RPO < 4 hrs

• Continuous Replication

RPO = 0

• Restore from Backups

RTO > 24 hrs

• Hot Standby

RTO < 4 hrs

• High Availability

RTO = 1 hr

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Planning for a Disaster

Infrastructure Checklist:– Network

• Redundant network equipment

– Power• Multiple power sources, backup generators

– Cooling– Security

• Physical and virtual security

– Redundancy• N+1 availability

– Storage

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Five Steps to Business Continuity Planning

Risk Assessment

Business Impact Analysis

Plan CreationPlan & Implement

Plan Test & Maintain BCP

Life Cycle

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Selecting the Right Service Provider

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