Disaster Recovery Plan Analysis

Running head: DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN ANALYSIS
DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN ANALYSIS
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Objectives of Acme National Bank of America (ANBA) Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Disaster Recovery Planning refers to the process that involves creation of a document
detailing the steps that a business can take for recovering from a calamitous event. In this
case the objective of ANBA was to bring in reductions in the overall risk, maintaining and
testing the plan in case a disaster happens, provide rapid response and see to it that the day-
to-day operations are not affected drastically in case of any disastrous events. In this context,
ANBA has come up with a disaster recovery plan for software malfunctioning which is
required as if a software malfunction it will affect the operations of the organizations
drastically. In case of this, banks are highly dependent on computer systems for different
reasons such as e-passbooks, storing account opening details and many more things thus
software failure may disrupt these works (Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). The firm
wants to ensure that it can carry on with its operations even after a disastrous incident. The
other major objective ANBA is to protect the sensitive information and various records.
Having a disaster recovery plan will help ANBA to cope up with incidents as malfunctioning
software. This will help the organization in recovering the lost as well as the damaged records
after a disaster happens.
Key ways that ANBA’s DRP help in mitigating organizational risks
Disaster Recovery Plan will help ANBA in mitigating the various organizational risks
in the following way:
1. This plan will help the organization to be responsive and carry out different tasks
efficiently in case any disaster happens.