Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals, Second Edition

Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific. Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in the Gulf Coast. Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Houses and Businesses in Colorado. Tornado Touches Down in Missouri. These headlines not only have caught the attention of people around the world, they have had a significant effect on IT professionals as well. The new 2nd Edition of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). With distributed networks, increasing demands for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, and the widespread risks to the security of personal, confidential and sensitive data, no organization can afford to ignore the need for disaster planning.

Author Susan Snedaker shares her expertise with you, including the most current options for disaster recovery and communication, BCDR for mobile devices, and the latest infrastructure considerations including cloud, virtualization, clustering, and more. Snedaker also provides you with new case studies in several business areas, along with a review of high availability and information security in healthcare IT.

Don't be caught off guard-Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals, 2nd Edition, is required reading for anyone in the IT field charged with keeping information secure and systems up and running.

• Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human-caused hazards, and accidental / technical hazards
• Extensive disaster planning and readiness checklists for IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, servers and desktops
• Clear guidance on developing alternate work and computing sites and emergency facilities
• Actionable advice on emergency readiness and response
• Up-to-date information on the legal implications of data loss following a security breach or disaster

About the Authors

Susan Snedaker, currently Director of IT and Information Security Officer at a large community hospital in Arizona, which has achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 (EMR) certification and has been voted 100 Most Wired Hospitals two years in a row. Susan has over 20 years' experience working in IT in both technical and executive positions including with Microsoft, Honeywell, and VirtualTeam Consulting. Her experience in executive roles has honed her extensive strategic and operational experience in managing data centers, core infrastructure, hardware, software and IT projects involving both small and large teams. Susan holds a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelors degree in Management. She is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management Systems (CPHIMS), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and was previously certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Susan also holds a certificate in Advanced Project Management from Stanford University and an Executive Certificate in International Management from Thunderbird University's Garvin School of International Management. She is the author of six books and numerous chapters on a variety of technical and IT subjects.

Chris Rima is currently Manager of Infrastructure Systems at a large utility in the southwestern U.S. recently named Utility of the Year by the Solar Electric Power Association, and winner of a CIO 100 award for creating business value with technology innovation. Chris has over 15 years' experience in information technology (IT) operations management and has coauthored three books on IT operations and security. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix. Chris taught mathematics and IT courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level from 1999 to 2007 and has previously worked as a Program Analyst for the Department of Defense. Additionally, Chris holds a certificate in ITIL Foundations and was previously certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT). In 2008, Chris garnered a CIO 100 Award and two Storage Networking World award nominations for efforts at his current employer to streamline the management of server and storage operations using virtualization and shared storage technologies in order to reduce operational costs and improve disaster recovery capability.