Business-Continuity Plan
The elements of the business continuity plan, in this case, include risks and impact. The plan classifies the internal and external hazards faced by Apollo Intellectual Associates (AIA). This includes major catastrophes like storms, fires, or floods to other predicaments such as fraud, systems failure, computer viruses, and malware. The plan includes an evaluation of the risk level, assessing the possible outcomes of each sort of disaster, and the impact on operations. This helps in recognizing any other procedure instituted by the company to reduce the risk.
The second element in the BCP plan is the response and resources. In this case, the plan includes a suitable response for each risk situation. This helps in outlining the steps to be exerted, the individuals involved and the resources needed to restore operations (Muflihah & Subriadi, 2018). The company may need to set up makeshift facilities in the instance where a major catastrophe happens. The plan identifies the source and position of amenities such as makeshift office, IT and communication systems, and equipment so essential personnel can swiftly recommence work.
The third element of the plan is the duties and priorities. A precise management structure is vital in a disaster. The plan identifies the members of the business continuity team with a comprehensive explanation of functions, responsibilities, and activities. The fourth element is contacts and communications. The plan includes templates for in-house briefings and announcements covering diverse situations. This also includes an updated employee register with contact data. Contacts for emergency services are also included in this element.
The final element is testing and maintenance. The plan, in this case, includes a comprehensive training program and establishes dates for frequent rehearsals of the recovery processes. Risks and threats are evolving at a fast rate and without proper testing and maintenance organizations can be adversely affected in case of a disaster or attack (Gross Jr, 2017). The plan would name a team member who will be in charge of refreshing the procedures.
Disaster-Recovery Plan
The DRP for Apollo Intellectual Associates includes data Integrity. This is applied when recovering from ransomware and other catastrophic incidents. In this case, numerous systems will be required to work collectively to deter, identify, report, and recover from incidents that corrupt data. The plan also includes a contingency planning guide for federal information systems developed by NIST. This assists the organization in surmising the objective, process, and arrangement of information system emergency preparation development through working guidelines. This renders direction to help employees assess information systems and services to ascertain contingency planning specifications and preferences. Further, there is a guide to test, training, and exercise programs for IT plan and capacities. This publication formulated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology endeavours to help companies in designing, generating and assessing tests and training to help personnel in preparing for unfavourable conditions.
Incident-Response Team
The members of the incident response team include the incident response manager, security analysts, human resource, and management. To start with, the incident response manager would be in charge of supervising and ranking activities during the detection, investigation, and containment of an event. He will also be responsible for communicating the special specifications of great severity events to the rest of the organization. The security analysts would be responsible for investigating the time, position, and features of an incident. The human resource is responsible for the placement of workers and coordination of administrative functions. The management would be responsible for rendering resources, personnel, and time for incident response planning and accomplishment.
References
Muflihah, Y., & Subriadi, A. P. (2018). A basic element of its business continuity plan: systematic. Jurnal Informatika, 12(1), 17-23.
Gross Jr, W. F. (2017). Disaster Recovery Plans for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). In Computer and Information Security Handbook (pp. 549-553). Morgan Kaufmann.