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NTC/411 Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity Plan

Final team project on ensuring network security and operational continuity.

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    Running head: WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY 1 Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity Plan NTC/411 Based on the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for Riordan Manufacturing, explain the critical importance of disaster recovery planning, especially in terms of data protection and network security. Discuss how the proposed recovery strategies and mitigation efforts ensure that the organization remains operational during and after a crisis. Be sure to include key elements such as risk analysis, recovery phases, and response planning. Additionally, evaluate the potential challenges Riordan may face in implementing these strategies and suggest any improvements that could be made to strengthen their BCP. Word Count Requirement: 600 - 800 words

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    WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY 2 Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity Plan Modern businesses use information as a crucial commodity internally and in dealing with partners and customers. This information must be safeguarded against disasters, regardless of cause or origin. To effectively accomplish this, organizations rely on business continuity plans. Business continuity plans are part of the risk management process and identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses (threats), control measures against those threats, and appropriate disaster response and recovery planning. Using the virtual organization Riordan Manufacturing as a case study, Learning Team A will present a business continuity plan for potential threats to the Riordan information network. Riordan Manufacturing employs 550 people across three locations in the continental United States and one overseas joint venture in Hangzhou, China. Furthermore, Riordan has a recognized status as a global plastic manufacturer with $46 million annual earning. All of these accolades are company commodities to be protected. The company’s main products are in plastic beverage containers produced at its plants in Albany, Georgia; and custom plastic products produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan. The joint venture at Hangzhou produces and distributes plastic fan parts. Riordan Manufacturing’s research and development is placed at the corporate headquarters In San Jose. Their main customers are aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, automotive parts manufacturers, and appliance manufacturers. BCP Overview A large number of catastrophic events in the last decade have demonstrated the alarming vulnerability of the U.S. and other nations around the globe to terrorist activity and natural disasters. While the predictability of these events varies from one situation to another , it is imperative for organizations of all sizes to establish emergency preparedness and response

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    WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY 3 programs that minimize or eliminate the negative impact that these disruption s may potentially cause. The following set of guidelines forms a business continuity plan specific to Riordan Manufacturing and is presented to provide standard operating procedures that maintain business continuity during crises, e mergenci es, or d isaster that negatively affect Riordan’s normal operation s . From this foundation, Riordan can continuously improve a formal Business Continuity Plan (BCP) that :focuseso n the safety and security of Riordan’s employees; prevent s infrastructure damages ; and maintain s business continuity . Simultaneously, the BCP achieves these objectives while minimizing the impact on Riordan’s clients, suppliers, partners and/or consultants. Additionally, these guidelines provide preventive procedures along with the basic standard procedures for returning to normal operations following business disruption of any nature. Justification Disaster recovery has always been associated with a company’s information technology systems . This commonly includes servers, switches and data storage devices. As previously mentioned, data is a commodity for business.The necessityof redundancy - whether inside the same building or at a remote site – is self - evident in the fact that “putting all the eggs in one basket” rarely works out . The economic recession that has affected the globe for the last 10 years caused many cor porations and small business to eliminate the redundancies that were provided for their data storage ; the cost of maintaining these redundanciesnegatively affected too many profits. Threats outside a company’s network can cripple the company’s goodwill, reputation and the ability to deliver their products to the customer, meet m arket expectation and customer demands. Continuity planning must meet the requirements of modern and future business es , their customers and the entire organization. This entails a plan concrete enough to be employed now,

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