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Strategic Initiatives Office October 25, 2005

Information Technology Advisory Board. Strategic Initiatives Office October 25, 2005. Michael Singletary, Enterprise IT Manager. Agenda.

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Strategic Initiatives Office October 25, 2005

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  1. Information Technology Advisory Board Strategic Initiatives OfficeOctober 25, 2005 Michael Singletary, Enterprise IT Manager

  2. Agenda • In a post-911 world, and after the experience of Louisiana in Hurricane Katrina, are North Carolina’s state agencies and their IT systems ready for a disaster? • What steps have been taken to ensure our preparedness? • What steps still need to be taken? • How can the ITAB help? • Questions

  3. Are We Ready? • The short answer is that it depends on the disaster’s level of severity. Hurricane Floyd • IT • Business (records) Progress has been made in a just a few years. • Cornerstones of Progress: • Legislation requiring that agencies prepare Business Continuity Plans • Business Impact Analysis tool was purchased and agencies trained in its use. • Hot Site and routine tests of it.

  4. Governing StatuteGS 147-33.89 • Each state agency shall develop and continually review and update as necessary a business and disaster recovery plan with respect to information technology: • Consider the organizational, managerial, and technical environments. • Assess the types and likely parameters of disasters most likely to occur and the resultant impacts. • List protective measures to be implemented in anticipation of a natural or man-made disaster. • Each agency shall submit its disaster recovery (business continuity) plan on an annual basis to the State CIO (June).

  5. Business Impact Assessment Per the Governing Statute: Each state agency shall “assess the types and likely parameters of disasters most likely to occur and the resultant impacts.” Based on a recommendation from the statewide security assessment: ITS was advised to “leverage the Business Impact Assessment tool to help each agency understand its risks and what assets need to be protected.”

  6. BIA Process • Starting in January/February 2005 workshops were held for agencies. • Each agency’s Business Continuity planner completed a self-administered Business Impact assessment using a nationally recognized tool. Strohl Systems provided consultation. • The surveys were submitted to Strohl Systems for consolidation, review and report generation.

  7. BIA Report Results • Alternate Business Site (s) needed • Employees will need equipment and secure network for work-from-home strategy to be considered viable • Test system and data recoverability • Strategy for on-site paper records recovery needed

  8. BIA Report Results - Graphs

  9. BIA Report Results - Graphs What Percentage of Business Units Are Difficult to Recover?

  10. BIA Report Results - Graphs

  11. BIA Report Results - Graphs Types of Disruptions Fire Website Hacking Flooding Severe Weather Loss of Data Communications Power Loss Loss/Corrupted Data Business Disruption/Physical move Loss of Tape Drives Loss of Local LAN Severs Loss of Water

  12. BIA Report Results - Graphs

  13. BCP ResultsPlans submitted to SCIO

  14. BCP Results 15 agencies are ITS customers eligible for hot site services

  15. BCP ResultsAgencies w/ Critical Apps/Processes Listed

  16. How can the ITAB Help? • Raise the importance of the issues with agencies and the General Assembly. • Promote testing of critical business processes located on hardware in agency facilities • Establish agency policy • Review your own agency’s plan. Could you recover your mission critical processes with just the material in your plan?

  17. Next Steps • Strohl Systems will provide statewide training on new versions of the tools (October/November 2005) • Agencies encouraged to use BIA information to prepare their BCPs • SIO works closely with agencies on process improvements pertaining to BIA, Risk Management and BCP • BCPs will be submitted to SIO by June 30, 2006

  18. Questions?

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