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HIPAA Compliance Checklist, Part 3: Emergency Mode Operation Plan |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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But HIPAA also requires your organization to "establish (and implement as needed) procedures to enable continuation of critical business processes for protection of the security of electronic protected health information while operating in emergency mode." In other words, you need an emergency mode of operation plan, and your data backup company should be able to help you meet this requirement.
Here's what you should be looking for when you compare online backup vendors:
- Your backup solution should provide business continuity in the event that you are forced to operate in emergency mode.
- If your business suffers a localized disaster, in the form of server failure or data corruption, an onsite virtual server is a great solution for continuing operations until equipment is replaced or corruption issues are resolved, because it minimizes service interruptions.
- In the case of a physically catastrophic event, such as loss of a building to fire, data should be rapidly retrievable from one of your offsite data centers and then restored to you at a new location, allowing you to quickly resume services.
- We have to stress, once again, the importance of distance between your offsite data centers. A natural disaster can be geographically widespread, so ideally your data centers should be at least 2000 miles apart. This minimizes the chance that a single event will destroy both offsite copies of your data.
Visit the comparison charts at Compare Online Backup, and you'll see why Granite Mountain is the clear choice when it comes to a data backup and disaster recovery solution. Then complete our Fast Quote Form
Next in our HIPAA Compliance Checklist series:
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At Granite Mountain, we provide True Business Continuity as a core component of our Backup & Disaster Recovery solution. Combine Microsoft Storage Server with our onsite Network Attached Storage (NAS) device and you have full server virtualization. This allows a server which has failed to be restored on the NAS as a virtual image giving you a standby server in less than hour. Since the total image of the server is being restored no configuration changes are needed as the virtual image has the same properties, IP address, NetBIOS name as the failed server and backups continue to happen even when running the virtual image. When new hardware/spares arrive, the virtual image can be shutdown and the latest backup image can be used to perform a bare metal install on the new hardware.
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