Disaster Recovery

The Disaster Recovery team members include:

Edgar P. Mangum

Senior Information Security Analyst

713 486-2185

Elias Rivera

Senior Network Security Analyst

713 486-3458

Beverly Moore
Senior Information Security Analyst

713 486-2251

Disaster Recovery and Planning

Information Security facilitates disaster recovery planning and coordinates testing for the following UT-H applications:

• PeopleSoft HCM and FMS
• Campus Solution
• Dental Branch CIS (Axium & Mipacs)
• IDX and Allscripts
• HCPC Sunrise
• Active Directory
• Exchange Email
• Documentum
• BlackBoard

Information Security works with user departments to develop business continuity plans.

The Information Security Disaster Recovery Plan correlates with the Emergency Management and Business Continuity Plans.

Disaster Recovery Presentation - Stewardship in a Regulatory Environment

Testing Overview

The Disaster Recovery Plan is tested periodically to ensure all issues are addressed in the plan.

Server recovery is tested by remote access to our databases located at a hot site. Participants are solicited from business units to perform transaction processing. This ensures the applications are fully operational. A pseudo batch production run is processed to test update functionality of the application databases.

If you are interested in participating in a test or in obtaining more information, please contact

Elias Rivera, Disaster Recovery Analyst.

Why Plan and Test?

It is difficult to open a newspaper without reading about a tragedy somewhere in the world, but it is always somewhere else. Unfortunately, businesses that think "it will never happen to us" will not be in business long. The next major hurricane could strike the upper Texas coast, the next bomb could go off in Houston, or the next hard drive crash could be your PC. In today's world, disaster recovery planning just makes good business sense.

In June, 2002, the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) was modified to define Information Resource Standards and Policies. Within those policies, it is stated that:

Business Continuity Planning covers all business functions of an agency and it is a business management responsibility. Agencies should maintain a written Business Continuity Plan so that the effects of a disaster will be minimized, and the agency will be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions. The contingency plan shall be tested and updated at least annually to assure that it is valid and remains current data and software essential to the continued operation of critical agency functions shall be backed up. The security controls over the backup resources shall be as stringent as the protection required of the primary resources.