When developing your disaster recovery strategy, consider the following:

1. What are the specific risks to your organization? (Consider both external threats such as natural disasters and hacking, as well as internal risks such as employee theft or sabotage)
2. What effect would these have on your business? For example, if all your hard-copy finance records were destroyed, would you able to prove what payments you've made, and what customers owe you?
3. What is your recovery plan and timeframe?
4. What is the full cost of recovery? (Cost should include both the cost of recovery as well as the cost of lost man-hours to the company as employees are not able to work or customers are not able to access your offices, website, etc.)
5. Prioritization is a critical component of any DR plan. Is it more important to have your website up and running, or your phone system connected?
6. If the main office or facility is struck by a natural disaster and becomes inaccessible, employees need to know where to report to work. If your offices are unavailable, where are you going to do business?
7. The impact of a disaster on your environment is directly related to the planning, preventative measures and recovery methods you put into place in advance. What can be done pro-actively beyond implementing a disaster recovery solution, to mitigate risk and help avoid disaster? For example, quarterly, or even yearly, penetration testing of the network is highly recommended by CIS engineers to greatly reduce the threat of an external attack on your network.
8. If you are currently running an offsite real-time data solution, are you able to test your failover environment without taking your production systems offline? If not, how can you be certain that they will be fully functional in the event of a disaster?
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