Make an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan For Your Business

In this installment of Executech Courses, Eric Montague, CEO of Executech discusses the importance of having a disaster recovery plan for your business and the key considerations you should take to protect your data.
Disaster Recovery for Business Transcript/Overview:
Plan. Prepare. Protect.
- Common Business Disasters
- Hardware Failure
- Software Corruption Ransomware or Other Cyberattack
- Power Outages
- Natural Disaster
- Theft
- Common Business Disasters Statistics
- 40% of businesses close after suffering a disaster
- 75% of businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan
- 52% of businesses say it would take at least 3 months to recover from a disaster
- Ransomware/Malware Statistics
- 400,000 new malware variants detected PER DAY
- 48% of ransomware victims pay $2500 or more
- 2 DAYS – Average length of time to be restored after paying ransom
- 30% of victims who pay don’t get restored
- Disaster Planning & Recovery
- Put policies and procedures in place today
- Prevent Disaster
- Speed up Recovery
- Streamline Current Processes
- Put policies and procedures in place today
- First Steps
- Backup
- Replication
- Replication Considerations
- Differences vs Backup
- Self Performed
- HypverV vs. VMware
- Azure Site Recovery
- Backup
- Premise Based
- Cloud-Based
- Hybrid
- Backup Products
- Mozy
- Carbonite
- Cloudflare
- Protection
- Sophos Intercept X
- Recovery Plan
- Determine critical systems
- Identify and assign roles with contact info
- Vendor contact info/escalation list
- TESTING is critical
- Systems
- Phone
- Customer-facing websites
- SMS Text
- Internet
- Restoration & Rebuild
- Determine threshold of downtime (immediate or 24 hours)
- What is mission critical?
- Insurance
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