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Data requirement: Many different inputs are needed for the plan – from timelines, resources, funding, business risk and assessment, alternate sites and so on (Disaster Recovery, n.d.).
Precision, Timeliness and Completeness of Data: In the Cloud scenario the replication of data needs to be precise. Quick server recovery at alternate sites to copy production data including IP, firewalls and VLAN is critical (Online Tech, 2017).
Authorization of Data: Security remains one of the key challenges in the cloud and authorization of data becomes imperative. Information on the cloud should be transferred and stored in a secure manner and users must be doubly authenticated before access is given to them (Gsoedl, 2011).
Financial Data: Speed of recovery and integration remain the key components of securing financial data. A second tier server which takes in to account compliance measures is needed for financial data recovery.
Software Requirements: Use of 256-bit AES encryption is needed to ensure the implementation of efficient recovery processes. Software Backup: Automated software back up will enable quick recovery in the cloud environment.
Hard Disk Backup: Local backup can be used to secure low levels of data corruption or losses. Hardware Requirements: Backup data can be stored on premium enterprise class disk arrays and replication can be done at a secondary data center.
Hardware Protection: Data centers for financial enterprises would be certified by SOX and SSAE16 along with login access control with built-in redundancies. Hardware Backup: Local backup and 2 offsite backups as copies will help in recovery with double redundancies.
Status and integrity of Off-Site Data: Audits of backup data at 2nd level locations are important to help in optimizing RPO and RTO (Robinson et al., 2014).
References
Disaster Recovery. (n.d.). Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan Steps.
disasterrecovery.org. Retrieved from: http://www.disasterrecovery.org/plan_steps.html.
Gsoedl. R. (2011). Disaster recovery in the cloud explained. techtarget. Retrieved from
http://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/feature/Disaster-recovery-in-the-cloud-explained.
Online Tech (2017). Benefits of Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing. onlinetech.com.
Retrieved from: http://www.onlinetech.com/resources/references/benefits-of-disaster-recovery-in-cloud-computing.
Robinson. G., Narin. A. and Elleman. C. (2014). Using Amazon Web Services for Disaster
Recovery. Amazon Web Services. Retrieved from: http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/AWS_Disaster_Recovery.pdf.
