IT Management

Running head: IT MANAGEMENT
IT MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
2) Plan overview..............................................................................................................................2
Plan Updating Authority..............................................................................................................2
Plan Documentation Storage........................................................................................................2
3) Backup strategy...........................................................................................................................2
4) Risk Management........................................................................................................................3
5) Emergency Events.......................................................................................................................5
6) Communication strategy for notifying employees, customers and media..................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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2) Plan overview
Plan Updating Authority
In this disaster recovery plan, the auditor is responsible for examining and assessing that the
procedures which are stated in the disaster recovery plan are consistent with a real practice. The
auditor is also responsible for assessing that officer for disaster recovery, the liaison for disaster
recovery or the disaster recovery coordinator possess all kinds of technical skills, experience and
training required for analyzing the capabilities of the members of team to complete the tasks
assigned.
Plan Documentation Storage
For maximizing the effectiveness of the auditors, disaster recovery officers or coordinators, the
plans for disaster recovery becomes most effective when they are frequently updated. The
auditor is responsible for examining records, contracts and billings for verifying all the records
which are being kept (Mohamed, 2014). Such records include a recent list of the hardware and
the software vendors of the organization. This list is periodically updated for reflecting the
changing practices of business. Several copies of it are stored both on and off site and are made
accessible to those which needs them. The auditor is responsible for testing the procedures which
are required for meeting the main objective and in determining the effectiveness.
3) Backup strategy
As a backup strategy, executives or some other leaders may plan some general testing like
operations testing based on scenario and also the testing for backup sources of power (Whitman,
Mattord & Green, 2013). In case of actual testing the information technology system for backup,