Disaster Recovery Plan and Disaster Recovery Test
for a
State Legislature’s Document Management System
InfoSENTRY
served as project manager for a state legislature’s innovative implementation
of a mission critical document management system. The system quickly became core
to the legislature’s bill processing operations, document preparation in both
the Senate and the House, and research in legislative staff divisions.
From the
outset of the project security was a critical aspect of the document management
system’s design. The legislature’s dependence on the system for daily
operations meant that the system had to be available, sometimes on a 24x7 basis
during critical days of legislative debate. InfoSENTRY worked with the
legislature’s computer staff to prepare a disaster recovery plan for the
documentation management system to meet these availability requirements.
Before
the system went into full production, InfoSENTRY prepared a test scenario and
script for recovering the system in the event of a disaster. InfoSENTRY’s
business impact analysis determined that the most likely disaster leading to a
prolonged disruption of access to the documentation management system was a
major weather event, such as a severe thunderstorm or tornado, that created
major physical damage to the legislature’s computer center. (In fact, a tornado
has destroyed much of the downtown surrounding the State Capitol several years
earlier.) InfoSENTRY administered the test, prepared an “After Action Review”
to capture lessons learned, and assisted the legislature in modifying its
disaster recovery plan to mitigate weaknesses uncovered in the test.
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