Complete BCP/DRP IT Recovery Checklists

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IT Recovery Checklist One — Infrastructure
- Review BC/DR team member assignments, ensure all team members are present or accounted for.
- Convene brief planning meeting to ensure all team members understand the situation, the recovery options selected, the requirements and other constraints
- Provide all team members with updated contact information (if appropriate) and chain of command for problem notifi cation and escalation.
- Ensure all team members have inventory lists, equipment purchase order or shipment information, and that they understand recovery procedures moving forward.
- Review equipment at alternate site (if used) or at main facility (if used). Ensure all equipment needed for selected recovery option is appropriate and meets requirements.
- Review procedures for receiving, tracking, and testing IT equipment.
- Receive backups from storage facility or confi rm online availability of backups.
- Inspect and test backup media, if appropriate.
- Review or develop fl oor plans for replacement equipment including IT systems, communications equipment, and infrastructure components.
- Review network diagram to verify location and connectivity of infrastructure components such as routers, switches, hubs, and gateways.
- Review network addressing scheme, system confi guration data, and security confi guration data.
- Connect all IT components to network.
- Run procedures to confi gure infrastructure components.
- Configure or restore security settings and security devices including fi rewalls, gateways, and routers.
- Restore network servers and other critical equipment via backups.
- Redirect data and voice traffi c to alternate location, if appropriate. If you are restoring at the original site, ensure data and voice traffi c are properly routed and working.
- Provide network access to designated employees at alternate site.
- Test and verify all network connectivity and security settings.
- Document results in event log, communicate with appropriate parties.

Recovery Checklist Two—Applications
- Review recovery procedures for critical applications. Verify needed servers are restored and online, as appropriate.
- Review mission-critical data to determine which applications should be restored fi rst.
- Review internal and external data or application dependencies. Take action, as appropriate, to ensure all dependencies are addressed in the correct order and timing.
- Review security settings—acquire passwords or reset passwords, as needed.
- Restore, confi gure, and verify operating systems if not already performed.
- Restore, confi gure, and verify applications.
- Restore application data from backups, as appropriate. Ensure data is the most current available.
- Verify integrity of data and functionality of applications.
- Notify key users of application availability. Inform users of procedures to address data backlogs, if appropriate.
- Document results in event log, communicate with appropriate parties.

Recovery Checklist Three — Office Area and End-User Recovery
- Review teams and check to ensure team members are present or accounted for.
- Review MTD and other constraints to ensure compliance with recovery requirements.
- Verify that team members have necessary alternate work space inventory lists.
- Review equipment at alternate location, determine if it meets recovery requirements. Note any discrepancies or gaps.
- Review or revise material receiving, inventory management, and distribution procedures so when new equipment and supplies arrive, they can be properly managed.
- Review floor layout for alternate work space, determine location of offi ce furniture and equipment including copiers, fi le cabinets, bookcases, and printer stands.
- Review network diagram and connectivity. Ensure offi ce layout accommodates existing network, communication, and power connection points. Modify as needed.
- Receive and set up offi ce furniture per plan. Assign work areas to team members.
- Receive and set up computers, workstations, printers, and other IT-related user equipment.
- Set up copiers, faxes, network printers, and telephones at designated locations.
- Provide offi ce supplies to team members as needed.
- Provide documents, manuals, and other materials that may have been stored at and retrieved from an off-site storage facility.
- Reroute voice and data communications to alternate work location. Notify key personnel of current location, contact information, and status.
- Ensure connectivity to key servers, applications, and data.
- Set up help desk or customer service function at alternate location.
- Document results in event log, communicate with appropriate parties.

Recovery Checklist Four—Business Process Recovery
- Verify user workstations, desktop, and laptop computers are restored and have access to necessary network resources.
- Ensure all key personnel or designated users have usernames and passwords for alternate site access.
- Complete workstation, desktop, or laptop restoration, as needed.
- Retrieve critical records and forms from storage, if applicable.
- Receive and process new transactions manually until transactions can be handled electronically.
- Verify integrity of data on restored systems. When tests are completed satisfactorily, transition to processing transactions electronically.
- Identify work backlog and implement processes to address backlog to enter data into systems.
- Begin using restored systems for new transactions.
- Begin data backup procedures to protect new data being entered into recovered systems.
- Document results in event log, communicate with appropriate parties.

Recovery Checklist Five—Manufacturing, Production, and Operations Recovery
- Review maximum downtime and other constraints.
- Assemble manufacturing, production, or operations recovery team (called “operations” from hereon).
- Tour alternate operational areas to assess status or tour original operational areas to assess current damage and status. Review safety requirements against current status.
- Review environmental conditions including heating/cooling, humidity, or dust levels, air filtration status (dust, odors, airborne contaminants, etc.). Determine if current condition and status meet operating requirements.
- Inspect any stored hazardous materials or chemicals for safety.
- Inspect and test, as appropriate, all safety devices including fi re extinguishers, smoke detectors/alarms, emergency lighting, among others.
- Verify sufficient electrical (or other power) exists to run machinery and equipment.
- Verify teams have alternate facility operating procedures and inventory lists.
- Review equipment against inventory lists and operating requirements. Address any gaps or discrepancies.
- Review and revise, as needed, equipment receiving, inventory management, and equipment distribution procedures. Ensure that equipment and inventory arriving at the alternate (or damaged original) location is tracked and monitored.
- Receive any critical equipment, parts, supplies, or materials from off-site storage, vendor shipment, or salvage from original location.
- Receive and inspect any salvageable or existing inventory. Assess status, dispatch inventory as appropriate (destroy, store, repackage, reuse, etc.).
- Review floor layout for manufacturing, production, or operational activities. Ensure proper connections including power, data, or network exist in the proper locations.
- Place equipment in locations and install, connect, and test.
- Install and test auxiliary equipment including printers, copiers, telephones, walkie talkies, radios, and other equipment needed for operations.
- Provide operational and configuration documentation to team leaders or equipment operators, as appropriate.
- Install and configure any IT-related equipment including interfaces, workstations, desktops, and such.
- Set up connectivity between operations and IT systems at alternate locations, as needed.
- Test equipment, machinery, and confi gurations.
- Test output of operations for quality, quantity, and other required attributes.
- Test voice and data network to ensure connectivity.
- Ensure operators have information needed to begin production including logins, passwords, keys, or other necessary tools.
- Review and implement any manual work-arounds for production or inventory management needed.
- Review and implement any electronic production or inventory management procedures,as needed.
- Begin manufacturing, production, or operations on limited basis.
- Test and verify output. Expand or increase production as warranted.
- Document results in event log, communicate with appropriate parties.