Chapter 4, Problem 18RQ

Program Plan Intro

Incident Response Plan:

• Incident Response Plan mainly focuses on immediate response of an incident and it is basically concerned with keeping people safe.
• It is a complete set of functions and actions that detect, mitigate, and anticipate the impact of a sudden event that might compromise information property and resource.
• This plan is generally written for Safety, Security and Health with help of Business Continuity Manager, but IS (Information Systems) and ICT (Information Communications Technology) should make sure that there is a plan, particularly if they are the sole occupants of a building.

Disaster Recovery Plan:

• Disaster Recovery plan is the preparation for recovery from the disaster, whether it is made by human or natural.
• It is detailed step-by-step procedure for the recovery and operation of mission critical systems.
• It also contains detailed actions for responding to tragedies and doing post-disaster recovery efforts.