Documents a disaster recovery plan as part of an overall contingency plan to complete that restoration task and keep the company running. A disaster recovery plan is required for any publicly traded company and companies that need to minimize loss under which the company site is unable to function under standard daily business procedures.

The Disaster Recovery Plan contains the following topics:

    What is disaster recovery?
    Goals, objectives, and scope
    Disaster recovery team
    Disaster recovery time
    Disaster recovery site
    Critical services or information
    Technology priority for services and applications
    Response process
        (notice of problem, assessment, and resolution)
    Disaster recovery declaration
    Notification and recovery procedures
    Network, Internet and Windows Server recovery plan
    Electronic mail and telecommunications recovery plan.

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