Activating Your Disaster Recovery Plan

If you are attacked, the key feeling will be some form of panic. Take some advice culled from experience: Do not succumb to that panicked feeling. It will lead to more mistakes, bigger problems, and may cause you to overlook something.

Chapter 6 covers the process of crafting your own disaster recovery plan. In the event of a hack on your website or systems, you will likely activate your plan. As you may recall, the implementation of your disaster recovery plan requires that you define the initial actions you will take after you determine there's an issue.

The issue typically is a disruption of some sort in your website or infrastructure operations. This can include an impending disaster. In the activation of your disaster recovery plan, you will notify your team and determine what the outage is. If the outage includes a portion of your site or the entire server, your plan should account for this.

Let's review your general initiation plan.

Why Activate Your Disaster Recovery Plan?

The why behind activating your disaster recovery plan means that some emergency situation previously being defined by the plan you created has arisen. This reason could be any number of issues such as power failure, data loss, or, in this example, a cyber attack.

Who Should Activate the Plan?

If you are a one-person operation, then who will determine that an emergency exists and declare the emergency will be you. In a larger operation (such as a small or medium-sized ...

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