About this policy
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Date of last update:
March 30, 2020
Policy statement
This Disaster Recovery (DR) policy focuses on Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering IT infrastructure.
Indiana University requires adequate protections to be established to insure the continuity and recovery of university business following the loss of systems that are critical to the operations of the school. This policy insures that Luddy IT provides acceptable technology recovery strategies for restoring Luddy hardware, applications and data in the event of a disaster that disrupts the IT infrastructure.
Luddy IT will maintain a proactive IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to serve as a basic guide for response and recovery of systems critical to the operations of Luddy. In addition, each year, ITG will update the IT section of the Luddy Business Continuity Plan (BCP) which is kept in the IU Ready system.
The school will update and test DRP and BCP plans annually. Plans outline critical IT systems and services, their recovery priority, procedures for recovering disrupted systems and to minimize impact to operations.
Exceptions to policy
Some research centers are affiliated with Luddy, but are self-managed and therefore not under the purview of the ITG team or this policy:
Procedures
- Each year, the IT Director will assemble members of the Core Infrastructure IT team to review the current Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and discuss the need for revisions/updates to the IT recovery strategies of critical systems and services.
- Changes in the IT environment can and do occur as a result of the active and evolving Luddy technical research and teaching missions which reveal the need for annual reviews and updates.
- Tabletop exercises are conducted with the entire ITG team with mock-disasters designed to test the plan and reveal opportunities for improvement.
- Occasional joint exercises with UITS are conducted when the opportunity arises. The goal is to gain a better understanding of UITS DR processes and adjust alignment of Luddy DRP with UITS if necessary.
- This DR policy will also be reviewed annually and revised as needed.