What are the best ways to prepare for system failures and disasters?

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System failures and disasters can strike at any time, disrupting your operations, damaging your data, and harming your reputation. As a systems manager, you need to be prepared to handle these situations and minimize their impact on your business. In this article, you will learn some of the best ways to prepare for system failures and disasters, from planning and testing to backup and recovery.

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1 Assess your risks

The first step to prepare for system failures and disasters is to assess your risks. You need to identify the potential sources of failure, such as hardware malfunctions, power outages, cyberattacks, natural disasters, or human errors. You also need to evaluate the impact of each failure scenario on your critical systems, data, and processes. You can use tools like risk matrices, impact analysis, or business impact analysis (BIA) to prioritize your risks and determine the level of protection you need for each system.

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Businesses need to understand and identify what their critical processes are and the people, processes and technology that support the core functions that make them a business. That should always be priority #1.

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2 Create a plan

The next step is to create a plan that outlines how you will respond to system failures and disasters. Your plan should include the roles and responsibilities of your team members, the communication channels and protocols, the escalation procedures, and the recovery objectives. You should also document the steps and resources needed to restore your systems, data, and processes to normal operations. Your plan should be clear, concise, and accessible to all relevant stakeholders.

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3 Test your plan

Once you have a plan, you need to test it regularly to ensure that it works as expected and that you can meet your recovery objectives. You should conduct different types of tests, such as tabletop exercises, walkthroughs, simulations, or full-scale drills, to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of your plan. You should also involve your team members, vendors, and customers in the testing process and collect their feedback. You should review and update your plan based on the test results and the changes in your environment.

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Tabletop exercises are a fantastic way to test and improve response plans. If a response plan isn’t tested and stakeholders are not familiar with it, it’s not much of a plan.

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4 Backup your data

Another important way to prepare for system failures and disasters is to backup your data frequently and securely. You need to have a backup strategy that defines what data to backup, how often to backup, where to store the backups, and how to restore them. You should also consider using different backup methods, such as full, incremental, or differential backups, and different backup media, such as tapes, disks, or cloud services. You should also encrypt your backups and test them regularly for integrity and usability.

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Always remember, the impact of a ransomware attack or catastrophic technology outage, can easily be defined by your back-up schedule. The only power an outage has over your organization is the time it takes to recover from a backup. Understand what that delta is, and plan on how to recover.

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5 Implement redundancy

Redundancy is the practice of having multiple copies or alternatives of your systems, data, or processes that can take over in case of failure. Redundancy can help you reduce the downtime and data loss caused by system failures and disasters. You can implement redundancy at different levels, such as hardware, software, network, or site. For example, you can use RAID arrays, load balancers, failover clusters, or disaster recovery sites to increase your redundancy and availability.

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6 Monitor your systems

The last way to prepare for system failures and disasters is to monitor your systems constantly and proactively. You need to have tools and processes that can detect and alert you of any anomalies, errors, or threats that may affect your systems, data, or processes. You also need to have metrics and dashboards that can measure and report on your system performance, availability, and reliability. You should also analyze and act on the data and insights generated by your monitoring tools and processes to prevent or mitigate potential failures and disasters.

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Organizations need to consider the downstream impacts of a major technology outage, attack related or otherwise. Business Leaders need to make cyber and technology resilience a priority. There are no other options. What is the reputational damage you will face? Were your customers forced to go to competitors? The impacts can be devastating and many businesses don’t recover.

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1 Assess your risks

2 Create a plan

3 Test your plan

4 Backup your data

5 Implement redundancy

6 Monitor your systems

7 Here’s what else to consider

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