Stress Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan


Written by Phil on April 27, 2010 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Testing.

Good disaster recovery planning (DRP) does not just prepare for the last disaster. This note will help you understand your DRP’s underlying assumptions, question these assumptions, test your plan under various scenarios, and revise accordingly.

The goal of this process is to refine the plan, so it is flexible enough to address actual disasters that weren’t thought of during the planning process.

Testing your DRP is essential to determining whether it is under or over built, and whether the infrastructure is appropriate. Use this research note to help put your DRP through its paces and plug the holes before disaster strikes.

See Stress Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan, by Info-Tech Research Group for CIOZone.com.

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An unexercised contingency plan could be worse than no plan at all!

Be sure to read Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan, Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, Editor – the only book on this subject – for valuable tips, techniques and insights. Now only $49.00!

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