20 Tips for Developing Telecommunications Continuity Plans
Instituting an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Disaster Recovery Plan will help ensure the availability of communications hardware and services and will help minimize the impact on the company if a disaster does occur.
Here are the first 10 Tips for Developing Telecommunications Continuity Plans:
- Identify current and potential risks to your network infrastructure, addressing voice/data/video, security, operations, administration, and maintenance
- Determine how large a risk your company can take
- Determine business impact (e.g. loss of revenue) of a network infrastructure loss
- Obtain support from senior management as well as other departments
- Define a formal Incident Response/Recovery Team
- Team up with IT and business units in developing the program; coordinate with existing Business Continuity Programs
- Develop financial and operation models, with appropriate justifications
- Review/update/redefine network and data center architectures
- Determine recovery strategies, e.g. network diversity, redundant servers
- Identify and secure technologies and services that satisfy recovery strategies
In the next blog we will continue to identify the next 10 Tips in developing Telecommunications Continuity Plans.