CIOL: What type of Disaster recovery planning have you adopted in your company?
KP: We follow a simple, four-stage planning process,

•  Identify business processes critical to continuity of business;
•  Define threat perceptions on these business processes;
•  Prepare to address these perceptions; and
•  Review events, threat perception, process coverage and progress frequently and revise BC plans.

CIOL: Is one stop solution possible to ensure business continuity?
KP: No, as I said earlier. It is a complex process and involves many elements.

CIOL: What must be the steps taken by an organization, in terms of best practice, to prevent possible potential disaster?
KP: Business continuity planning should encompass prevention to resumption of normalcy, which includes planning and preparing for risk mitigation, crisis management, recovery of resource and infrastructure (disaster recovery), alternate solutions to provide minimum service to customer and resuming "business as usual".

CIOL: What should be the basis for selecting DRP? Should recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) be the barometer or should it be dependent on the situation?
KP: Both RTO and RPO are important when seen as SLAs set for driving the efficiency of the BC process. Such SLAs provide a long-term focus to the BC process in an organization.