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Information Technology: Improvements Are Needed in Enterprise-Wide Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
2017-20-024
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
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Recommendations

The Chief Information Officer should revise and implement policy to ensure that functional tests of moderate availability systems and applications supporting mission essential functions are designed to test various functional aspects of their information system contingency plans that are consistent with the relative priority of the system and application.
Recommendation rejected by IRS

The Chief Information Officer should ensure that the IRS uses the enterprise disaster recovery priorities of systems and applications, derived from an updated enterprise-wide business impact analysis, to identify the order of entering keystroke recovery procedures into the TSCC tool.
Recommendation rejected by IRS