Robert Reinitz

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Business Continuity Plan

Introduction: DLIS has decided to develop a business continuity plan (BCP) with the full support of management. Instructions: DLIS business continuity plan will come into effect as soon as all elements meet specific guide lines and have been tested. Scope: DLIS will build and maintain a business continuity plan to insure operations will continue in the event of a single point of failure. Objective: DLIS has a warm site located 50 miles from the head quarter office ready to conduct business with a fully mirrored system and minimum staffing available in case of an unplanned interruption or disaster should occur. System Description and Architecture: The BCP for DLIS will identify critical business functions that need to remain operational during a disruption * 50 file servers * 12 databases * Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP) * Electronic Funds Transfer software (EFT) DLIS Mission: To receive, edit, and route logistics transactions for the Military Services and Federal Agencies to provide value added services for standard MILS transactions provide information about anything, anywhere, anytime, anyway, to anyone in the DoD and Federal Logistics Community. * Army * Navy * Marines * Air Force, Defense Agencies * NATO/Allies

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Alert/Notification/Activator members within their team. * EMT * DAT * TRT

Procedures:

The

BCP

coordinator

for

DLIS

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declare

the

notification/activation phase and notify all team leads. Team leads will be responsible to notify all

DLIS Order of Succession and delegation of authority will be managed by the BCP Coordinator and will notify the proper personnel in the event of a disruption or disaster * CEO * Chief information officer (CIO) * Vice Presidents (VPs) Service deliveries, Sales, Marketing * Department directors Plan valid activations criteria * Safety of personnel * Loss of operations of one or more critical business functions * Damage to building affecting critical business functions Maintenance and Testing: DLIS provides a web based training procedure equipped with full CDROMs and instructions in the event of a disruption or disaster. Modifications to any part of the plan will be updated immediately and made aware to all personnel involved. * Test individual steps within each phase of the BCP * Changes to the IT infrastructure * Test all recovery plans * Locate and test alternative resources

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Outside Support: DLIS Telecommunication support will be available with a backup ISP provider at the head quarter facility and the offsite facility. Internet Service Providers (ISP) will insure communication to personnel and customers continuously in the event of a disruption or disaster. * ISP * WAN * VPN * WI-FI Backup Plans: DLIS has decided to upgrade the offsite facility with a five terabyte RAID 5 server that is capable of holding a copy of all data with live backups. In the event of a failure at headquarters operations will continue to proceed without any interruptions through an encrypted virtual private network. * Electronic Vaulting * Remote Journaling Recovery Procedures: Valuable assets, including network connectivity, stored data, processes and procedures, and client information can survive centralized disruption or destruction and can be revived quickly through the agencys Continuity of Operations plan and corresponding off -site network. Restoration Procedures: DLIS personnel will return critical business functions (CBFs) to full operation after a disruption or disaster. Restoration will include the following procedures. * Facility resources * Power * Connectivity LAN/WAN * Restoration of systems Normalization: When a disruption or disaster no longer exist DLIS will test the transfer of critical business functions before returning the head quarter facility back to normal operations * Hardware- servers and network devices

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* Software- Supporting of CBFs operating systems and applications Conclusion: DLIS provides supply support, technical and logistics services to the U.S. military services and several federal civilian agencies. Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., the agency is the one source for nearly every consumable item, whether for combat readiness, emergency preparedness or day-to-day operations.