B3 Policy GapFill

 emailstaffCEOData is an increasingly valuable part of a business’s assets. It accounts for the intellectual property owned by a business, records of all email and written correspondence, and includes personal data belonging to its staff and customers. Not only is the data valuable, by law, personal data must be adequately protected and backed up. If a company has to suddenly vacate its premises (e.g. following a fire, flood or other natural disaster), or is subject to a malware attack it will need to follow its  software installation policyacceptable use policycopyright policydata recovery policy. These policies need to accurate and updated, accounting for a variety of scenarios and available at all times.

The policy will specify the  departmentssurnamesjob rolesfirst names of who is responsible for implementing the policy. This is done so that if the responsible person leaves the company or changes role, the policy is still valid. The plan will be first implemented by the person in charge of it, and each person responsible for a part will play their role at the right time.

Following a data breach or significant disruption to the business, the staff will be naturally concerned over their jobs. It’s therefore important that employers are transparent and explain how the disaster could affect their staff. For example, employers might explain how jobs may change temporarily, provide alternative methods of working and procedures, or if a data breach is high profile, how staff should respond to customers, or if approached by  the media / pressa foreign governmenttheir bosscensorship

When data had been lost, it should be restored from  staffmediumbackupdesktop. The most important data will be restored first. For example,  data used every weekdata normally stored only on external tapes or disksarchived datadata used every day will be restored first because it’s the most important data to the day-to-day functioning of the business. There are lots of methods of backing up and restoring data, including onsite data, but data might be available offsite on physical storage media or online – the  cloudhard diskRAIDtape. The order of recovery is called a  diary systemcalendarIntranetschedule

Some large companies might have a  closedsecondthirdsingle office that they can relocate to at a moment’s notice. They may even have a day or two working at this site to test out their plan and ensure that it is suitable for their needs. Smaller companies may ask their employees to work from  homebusiness loungesIntranetcafés if the office will only need to close temporarily, for example following a minor flood. If the whole building is destroyed, the office may have to  be demolishedfurloughrelocateclose permanently in order for the business to keep functioning. A new building might be rented or bought on a site elsewhere. As a result, the new office must be either move existing or  recycleupgradepurchase newdiscard equipment and set it up.