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Assignment

For the assignments in this course, you will be developing a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DR/BC) Plan that defines the objectives, planning process, team creation, risk analysis, business issues, implementation, testing, and maintenance required for safeguarding the organization.

Your first task in this process will be to consider situation of an imaginary company of your choice and create the framework for a DR/BC Plan.

The project deliverables are as follows:

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan

Use Word

Title page

Course number and name

Project name

Your name

Date

Table of Contents (TOC)

Use an autogenerated TOC.

This should be on a separate page.

This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.

Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.

Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with "TBD" as content, except for Week 1)

1: Project Concept and Executive Sponsorship

1: DR/BC Introduction

1: DR/BC Risk Assessment

2: Safeguarding Critical Assets

3: Storage and Communications

4: DR/BC Plan Implementation

5: Testing and Maintenance

References

Create the following section for Week 1:

Project Concept and Executive Sponsorship

Provide a brief description a company of your choice and your assignment to create the DR/BC Plan.

Provide comments regarding the instructions that you might receive from corporate executives.

Provide support through research regarding the need for executive sponsorship.

DR/BC Introduction and Risk Assessment

Provide an introduction to the new DR/BC Plan that the organization plans to implement.

Prepare a risk assessment that explains the various types of threats that could disrupt the business of your chosen company.

This should include consideration of both manmade and natural threats, as well as any threats that may be more likely given the geographic location of company facilities.

Support your positions with references obtained from the university library, Web, text, or other reputable sources.