The Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit program identifies control objectives that are meet by the audit program. 

There are 36 specific items that the audit covers in the 11 page audit program.  Included are references to specific Janco products that directly address the areas the audit covers. 

This program can be used as standalone audit program or in concert with the following Janco offerings:

• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template

• Security Manual Template

• Security Audit Program Template

• Business and IT Impact Questionnaire

• IT Service Management for Service Oriented Architecture

• Metrics for the Internet and Information  Technology

The need to be close to customers, manufacturing facilities and specialized labor have required organizations to extend the traditional concept of headquarters to offices and factories hundreds or even thousands of miles away. However, along with the opportunities that come with workforce globalization, come the realities of dealing with data that sprawls across the organization. Whether the data is at the Munich branch or at HQ in New York, it is equally susceptible to loss, requiring that data recovery and security plans apply to all parts of the organization, regardless of location.

To protect company data and ensure its availability to users, IT organizations have been conflicted between two backup approaches. The first approach, local tape backup, requires that tape libraries be present wherever there are servers in racks. Local area network (LAN) access to the servers gives administrators fast data backup and recovery.

The newer approach, centralized backup, puts high-density tape libraries in one location to which data from servers around the world is backed up. While centralized backup requires less hardware, reduces administration time, and solves the security problem associated with loose tape media, it can introduce greater bandwidth consumption and longer backup/restore windows. Because of these issues, centralized backup has been a leap some managers have not been willing to make.

Email applications have become key communication tools for businesses of all sizes. Today, email is the most common and vital form of communication, often replacing the phone as the preferred mechanism for exchanging information in the business world. It is a more efficient and cost-effective way of disseminating information of all types (text, image, video, and even voice) to fellow employees and between companies located anywhere in the world. In fact, as companies consider their messaging servers to be mission critical, these are among the first servers to be recovered after a disaster, sometimes even before phone systems.