Business Continuity Plan question

[Frazzle]

As part of the BCP I have been asked to provide an encrypted USB stick with details of student names, staff names and emergency contact details. This will be kept at our sister school. I cant see how this will work as we would need to update it each time there is a new student or one leaves or on staff changeover.

 

How do other people provide this information for BCP?

[FN-GM]

What would you read this information on? Might be worth stick a laptop offsite as well.

[Frazzle]

What would you read this information on? Might be worth stick a laptop offsite as well.

 

Yes I did think that I would need to have a laptop that would be able to read the data.

Is this the best way to hold information offsite? I was thinking I could have a VM sims server at our other school which would remain shut down. I would then back up our sims data regularly to the other school. I could then fire up the sims server when needed and load in the sims mdf/ldf.

 

I just don't know what best practice is for data like this to be held offsite.

[Frazzle]

Would a laptop with bitlocker on do the job?

[Steve21]

Is there a reason you just want those details?

 

If you're talking a full school issue that requires you leaving the building e.g. fire etc, you'd surely want a full backup of everything? As you're still obliged to keep data for certain amounts of time etc

 

Steve

[Frazzle]

Is there a reason you just want those details?

 

If you're talking a full school issue that requires you leaving the building e.g. fire etc, you'd surely want a full backup of everything? As you're still obliged to keep data for certain amounts of time etc

 

Steve

 

Yes - this requirement is over and above our normal full backup which we have. I think the idea is to have the essential information on the USB stick.

[john]

We had something similar and just did it in an encrypted stick once every half term it was someting LA initiated at the time so had to do it.

[Frazzle]

From another thread http://www.edugeek.net/forums/enterprise-software/162974-usb-encryption.html

 

Integral USB drives with 256 bit encryption were touted as being good. No need for an encrypted laptop to read the data.

[Frazzle]

What about storing the data on our Google Apps domain? Data is encrypted there and it would only be shared with designated staff.