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You are here: Home / BCP/DR / UConn Part 4: BCP/DR Toolkit & Document Library

UConn Part 4: BCP/DR Toolkit & Document Library

By Victor M. Font Jr.
May 4, 20132 Comments

UConn IT Contingency Plan Cover

After forming the governance teams and dealing with Hurricane Sandy, much of my time was spent creating a BCP/DR toolkit and document library. When I arrived at UConn, all they had was a single document they called a Business Continuity template. It was wholly inadequate to serve the needs of BCP/DR program.

There are many documents that can written for a BCP/DR document library. My choice was to either write them from the ground up or adapt best in breed documents that already exist in cyberspace. Since I don't believe in reinventing the wheel and I knew this assignment was a short one, I chose the latter. In a previous assignment working for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Atlantic (SPAWAR), I became very familiar with IT documents from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-series. The series reports on research, guidelines, and outreach efforts in information system security, and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations. The NIST provides the series for use or adoption by any organization without copyright. All the UConn documents are adaptations of this series as well as others from the Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) also by the NIST.

Document Library and Toolkit Downloads

The documents in the document library toolkit are:

  • Information Technology Contingency Plan and Planning Guide
  • Business Impact Analysis Template
  • Categorization of University Information and Information Systems
  • Information System Contingency Plan Guide
  • Information System Contingency Plan Templates for High, Moderate, and Low availability security objectives
  • Testing, Training, and Exercise Planning Guide
  • Templates for:
    • Tabletop Exercise Facilitator Guide
    • Tabletop Exercise Participant Guide
    • Tabletop Exercise After Action Report

Unfortunately, this toolkit remains incomplete. I didn't have the opportunity to create the functional exercise guides. Since all of these documents are in the public domain without copyright, you are free to download them by clicking their links above. You may adapt them for your own use or hire me to adapt them for you (*wink*, *wink*).

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Victor M. Font Jr. is an award winning author, entrepreneur, and Senior IT Executive. A Founding Board Member of the North Carolina Executive Roundtable, he has served on the Board of Advisors, of the North Carolina Technology Association, the International Institute of Business Analysis, Association of Information Technology Professionals, Toastmasters International, and the North Carolina Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services. He is author of several books including The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC and Winning With WordPress Basics, and Cybersecurity.

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  1. matt

    December 11, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    Victor

    Great stuff on BCP/DRP

    Just a clarification
    What did you mean when you referred to the functional exercise guides?
    thanks

    Reply
    • Victor M. Font Jr.

      December 11, 2015 at 10:29 pm

      The functional exercise guides are the tabletop and practice guides.

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