2022 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

This report delineates Town of Tecumseh “Town” policies and procedures for technology disaster recovery, as well as the process-level plans for recovering critical technology platforms and the telecommunications infrastructure. This report summarizes the recommended procedures that will underpin the Town’s business continuity strategy. In the event of an actual emergency situation, modifications to the processes outlined in the report may be made to ensure physical safety of our staff, systems, and digital assets.

The scope of this report includes the Town’s IT service continuity strategy; a subset of business continuity management (BCM). Often referred to as Disaster Recovery “DR”, IT service continuity management “ITSCM” is focused on planning for the restoration of IT-based services and technologies. ITSCM addresses the gaps in the traditional disaster recovery approach by introducing layers of resilience that provide higher levels of protection. This layering is realized by using technologies that are readily available such as virtualization and high availability fail over. This approach aligns with ITIL best practices.