Barbados, Haiti: The Widening Gap
Barbados Underground says that “the recent catastrophic earthquake which rocked Haiti has exposed one of the weaknesses of modern civilization; the failure to narrow the gap between rich and poor countries.”
Roles in Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan
The disaster recovery policy must be reviewed at least annually to assure its relevance. Just as in the development of such a policy, a planning team that consists of upper management, and personnel from information security, information technology, human resources, or other operations should be assembled to review the disaster policy. Roles and responsibilities of the planning team should be as follows: Perform an initial risk assessment to determine current information systems vulnerabilities. Perform an initial business impact analysis to document and understand the interdependencies among business processes and determine how the business would be affected by an information systems outage. Take an inventory of information systems assets such as computer hardware, software, applications, and data. Identify single points of failure within the information systems infrastructure. Identify critical applications, systems, and data. Prioritize key business functions. The Disaster Recovery Plan Template has tools that can be used immediately and defined in detail all of these responsiblities and provides a work plan that can be use as is.
