IT DRP

Business Continuity and IT DRP on an Integrated Platform

SeCube’s BCM module supports the planning, maintenance, review, and testing of business continuity and recovery strategies in accordance with the ISO 22301 standard, covering the entire lifecycle. It consolidates and manages the continuity requirements of business processes and IT infrastructure within a unified system.

The main focus of Service Continuity and Recovery Planning (IT DRP) is on planning the recovery and continuity of the services, IT systems, and key resources used by business and production processes, taking into account the needs of the processes they support.

The primary target audience for IT DRP planning is typically the departments responsible for the resources that support business and production areas, as well as IT operations departments.

For more information on SeCube’s business continuity management capabilities, see the SeCube BCM module description.

Key Capabilities and Business Benefits

• Automated recovery time objectives calculation (RTO, RPO, MTPD): These can be derived directly from the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) or manually reviewed and refined. The system continuously compares actual recovery capabilities with expected time-based targets in a reportable format.
• Graphical Dependency Map (Inventory): You can model the IT architecture (servers, VMs, databases, networks, etc.) in detail, along with its direct connections to business processes.
• Interactive Scenario Planning: A visual design canvas, simulation functions, and Critical Path (PERT) visualization support the precise tracking of emergency response actions (ETR times) and expected recovery times.
• Flexibly Configurable Plans: The scope of plans, as well as the emergency response actions and scenarios they contain, can be flexibly configured, making it easy to align them with existing planning methodologies.
• Intelligent Plan Maintenance and Validation: The software automatically monitors the currency of plans and sends notifications if changes to the Inventory, logical errors, or missed preparation tasks jeopardize the plans’ operability.
• Version Control and Audit Compliance: Historical tracking of the reviewed status of plans, including test reports.
• Test and Task Management: Trackable testing activities with measurement of actual execution times, as well as delegation of preparation tasks during downtime with automatic email notifications.

Crisis Management and Ad Hoc Decision Support

In the event of an emergency, SeCube’s simulation engine facilitates rapid modeling and immediate access to relevant plans. It enables the quick development of ad-hoc recovery scenarios based on previous plan elements, effectively supporting executive decision-making.

Documents – With a Single Click

As a result of the work performed in the software, audit-ready documentation can be generated at the click of a button:

• Detailed IT disaster recovery (DR) and service continuity plans, exportable in Word (docx) format
• Structured test plans and test reports
• Current recovery time objective (RTO/RPO) report
• Dependency and operational models, as well as a list of preparedness tasks