Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity

You will learn how to

• Create a business continuity plan and the methodology for implementation
• Perform a risk assessment and business impact assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
• Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
• Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
• Organize and manage recovery teams

CONTENT

Measuring risk and avoiding disaster

Assessing risk in the enterprise

Identifying mission-critical continuity needs

Implementing disaster avoidance

The four-step Business impact Assessment (BIA)

Designing Recovery Solutions

Establishing a disaster recovery site

Selecting backup and restore strategies

Restoring communications and recovering users

Implementing a project Management Approach

Managing and documenting the planning project

Running the project

Responding to disaster

Creating the recovery plan

Directing the disaster recovery teams

Assuring the plan and applying document management

Rehearsing the business continuity plan

Maintaining the business continuity plan

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.