Company description for Coastal Veterinary Clinic

You have been hired by Coastal Veterinary Clinic - a small veterinary practice - to help them prepare a contingency planning document. Some facts about the clinic include:

The practice has a small LAN with four computers and Internet access.

This clinic provides services for dogs and cats only.

These services include office visits, surgery, hospitalization, and boarding.

The clinic is located in a geographical region that is regularly threatened by hurricanes. The one-story building is constructed of cement block, with no windows, and meets all hurricane-related building codes.

The clinic does accept animals for boarding when a hurricane threatens, as public shelters for local residents do not allow animals.

Assignment

1. Do an analysis of the types of files that should be considered critical for backup purposes. While it is common to focus on databases and other data files for standard business processing, consider other types of information such as email messages and contact lists, appointment calendars, system logs, PBX configuration files, etc.

2. You will now prepare the incident response plan.

Create a list of stakeholders for the IR planning committee. For each type of stakeholder, provide the reasons for inclusion and the unique aspects or vision that you believe each of these stakeholders will bring to the committee.

Develop an outline for a training course for general end users. Justify the topics that you have included in your outline.

3. Write an after-action report in the case of the clinic being hit with a hurricane. What recommendations would you make to improve the IR plan that was previously written?