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How To Guide - January 2010
Business Resiliency Planning for the Mobile Workforce
How To Guide
Addressing business continuity, information security,policy enforcement, and regulatory compliancefor your mobile workforce
By DatacastleJanuary 2010
ContentsExecutive Summary 1Business Resiliency Planning Process 2-7- Analysis 2- Solution Design 5- Implementation 5- Test & Maintenance 7Mobile Workforce Resilience: Datacastle RED 7Business Resiliency Planningfor the Mobile Workforce
How To Guide - January 2010
Executive SummaryHow do organizations keep their mobile workforce productive while safeguarding critical business information? IT organizations are staring down what can be an overwhelming set of challenges -less tolerance for "downtime", exploding data growth, an increasingly mobile workforce, and more demanding regulatory compliance requirements. Critical business information no longer resides solely in protected data centers, but is increasingly found on laptops, opening up a new set of vulnerabilities that must be addressed. Just as there was a maturing transformation from Disaster Recovery (DR) to " Business Resilience Business Continuity Management (BCM) over the past decade, there is now a recognition that we must
is a lifestyle that an progress from BCM to the concept of Business Resilience.
organization embraces Business Resilience is a lifestyle that an organization embraces to ensure that it can thrive in the face to ensure that it can of the unexpected while meeting regulatory compliance. Traditional BCM focused on dealing with
thrive in the face of potential major disasters, including how your organization would recover from such an event. Business Resilience means that your organization is prepared to deal with large disasters (e.g. !ood, "re, riots, the unexpected while earthquake, war, etc.), mid-sized incidents (e.g. lost or stolen laptop) and small accidents (e.g. meeting regulatory corrupted "le, accidentally deleted "le). Business Resilience means that you can protect your critical compliance. " business information from security threats and meet compliance mandates (e.g. HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, PCI, etc.) without negatively impacting the productivity of your workers.
What follows is a framework for developing a business resilience plan for your organization. There are many considerations to take into account because of the multi-faceted nature of the challenge. There is no "silver bullet" that will solve the business resilience challenge facing your mobile workforce, but implementing best practices and policies can lead to competitive advantage, real bottom-line savings and perhaps most importantly protecting your reputation.
Business InformationContinuity & Security, PrivacyDisaster Recovery & Protection
Regulatory Date LifecycleCompliance Management
There are many considerations to take into account when solving the business resilience challenge facing your mobile workforce
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How To Guide - January 2010
The Business Resiliency Planning ProcessThe Business Resiliency Planning process is broken down into 4 phases:- Analysis- Solution Design- Implementation- Test & Maintenance" Telecommuters, managers who take their laptops AnalysisThe analysis phase will enable you to determine if you have an e#ective business resiliency solution for home in the evenings or your mobile workforce. The following deliverables are produced during this phase:weekends, contractors - all of these workers leave - Business Impact Analysisthe o$ce with valuable - Threat Analysisbusiness information on - Regulatory Compliance Analysistheir laptops... " - Recovery and Protection Requirements
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)If you have conducted a Business Impact Analysis for core IT systems in the past, this is a similar process with a few twists.
De!ne your "Mobile Workforce"The "rst step is to determine who makes up your mobile workforce. It's obvious to include sales professionals, accountants, HR professionals and IT personnel that travel on a regular basis. But what about other employees with laptops that leave the o$ce? Telecommut... [download for more]