Re: Internet presence during a disaster

["Gregory, Edward" <EGREGORY () DEPAUL EDU>]

Danny 

We currently have what we call our crisis server sitting at our
alternate data center(10 miles away) but we are currently working with
another university out of the region who will co-host that server for
us, as well storing student email address's. We will be doing the same
for them in our data center. We will be meeting with them in February to
finalize the details but it is our hope that we can do updates around
once a quarter if necessary and test the process at least once or twice
a year.

Thanks, Ed



Ed Gregory, CBCP 
Business Continuity and Security
DePaul University, Information Services 
Room 500 CSTC
egregory () depaul edu 
office -312-362-5374
fax - 312-362-8630

-----Original Message-----
From: Fox, Danny D. [mailto:dfox2 () SU EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:42 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Internet presence during a disaster

I am reviewing/updating our disaster recovery plan and am looking into
maintaining an internet presence during a disaster.

The goal is to provide a place for parents and others, not on campus, to
go to get some information even if we have an internet outage to the
campus.

I am looking at several options but leaning towards a hosting provider
like Network Solutions or Yahoo. They each have several plans and you
can have a dedicated IP Address for your site.

The site would contain "boilerplate" information pages that PR could
update via dial-up service until we get internet access back and our web
server on-line. These pages would be straight HTML with minimum
graphics.

To activate the server we would change the registration for our main web
server to the IP address of the provider so that anyone going to
www.su.edu would be directed to the off site server. 

What I would like to know is what others are doing to maintain an
internet presence during a disaster?



Danny Fox
Information Security Officer
Shenandoah University



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