Guidelines for Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR)

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....SEBI (TAC). Based on the recommendations of TAC, the broad guidelines for BCP - DR are given below: i. The stock exchanges and depositories should have in place Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Site (DRS) so as to maintain data and transaction integrity. ii. Apart from DRS, stock exchanges should also have a Near Site (NS) to ensure zero data loss. iii. The DRS should be set up sufficiently away, i.e. in a different seismic zone, from Primary Data Centre (PDC) to ensure that both DRS and PDC are not affected by the same disasters. iv. The manpower deployed at DRS / NS should have similar expertise as available at PDC in terms of knowledge / awareness of various technological and proced....

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....should be conducted on quarterly basis. In case of exchanges, these drills should be closer to real life scenario (trading days) with minimal notice to DR staff involved. b) During the drills, the staff based at PDC should not be involved in supporting operations in any manner. To begin with, initial three DR drills from the date of this circular may be conducted with the support of staff based at PDC. c) The drill should include running all operations from DRS for at least 1 full trading day. d) Before DR drills, the timing diagrams clearly identifying resources at both ends (DRS as well as PDC) should be in place. e) The results and observations of these drills should be documented and placed before the....