Details & Programme
IT Disaster Recovery is the part of Business Continuity that specialises in responding to serious operational disruptions resulting from IT failures. This course takes delegates through the IT DR Plan lifecycle from understanding the key business drivers, examining the various strategic options available that determine the shape of the IT DR Plan, through to ensuring that a completed plan is fit-for-purpose.
Course Topics
- IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Standards (ISO 27031 and ISO 22301)
- Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis: RTO. RPO, MTO, MASL
- Overview of the Storage solutions, Replication technology, High availability configurations
- Backup and recovery strategies: In-house, Outsourced and Cloud
- Work Area Recovery (WAR)
- Writing and Implementing your IT Disaster Recovery Plan
- DR team structure, Emergency communication, Incident Management
- Validating your IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Please note, this course is currently under review and topics may change slightly.
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By the end of the sessions you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of the relationship between business continuity management and IT DR
- Identify the business drivers that provide the critical direction for IT DR solutions
- Describe how to address any gaps that exist between ‘what the business expects from IT’ compared with ‘what IT is capable of delivering’
- Define the various IT DR strategies that can be adopted
- Understand the pros and cons of In-House, Outsourced and Cloud based IT DR solution
- Describe the various data backup / retrieval processes and mechanisms
- Appreciate the importance of IT’s role in recovering the desktop facilities for business work areas
- Understand how an IT DR plan is constructed and define what’s in and what’s out
- Recognise the importance of validating your IT DR plan and identify the different methods of approach
Who Should Attend?
- Experienced Business Continuity practitioners who are looking for an understanding of how IT Disaster Recovery plans are developed to support the overarching business requirements
- Data Centre managers with IT DR responsibilities
- Crisis Management team members needing to understand how the IT DR plan interfaces with enterprise wide crisis / incident management
- Information Technology practitioners who need a good appreciation of the mechanics of IT Disaster Recovery
- Auditors who may be called upon to scrutinise IT DR plans
- Risk Managers intent on understanding how IT departments DR plans are prepared in response to serious IT failure related risk
In-house Options
If you would like this training delivered for your organisation only, please contact the BC Training team on 01253 542650 or email info@b-c-training.co.uk.
Locations
Is the response to COVID-19 a business continuity issue?
quote for BCI Introduction to Business Continuity Management, Live Online, 7th-8th December 2020
Catalogue request from Alaa Alshennawi
Ransomware attack: Who are you going to call, Mike?
quote for BCI Introduction to Business Continuity Management, Live Online, 7th-8th December 2020
Catalogue request from Jana
quote for CBCI Certification Course (GPG), Live Online, 25th-29th January 2021
Hackney Council's Cyber Incident: A communications playbook of good practice?
Catalogue request from Laure IBARZ
Catalogue request from Andy Ewens
The difference between a generic response and contingency plans
OUT NOW: Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan
Cyber Ransoms - Should I Pay?
Catalogue request from Nicholas Deakin
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER: Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan
quote for PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, London, 24th-28th May 2021
quote for PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, London, 24th-28th May 2021
quote for PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, London, 24th-28th May 2021
quote for PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, London, 24th-28th May 2021
quote for PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, London, 10th-14th May 2021
Avoiding burnout during your COVID-19 response
What is doxing, and should I be worried about it?
Crisis Communications Support Teams - What are they and do I need one?
Marks out of 100 for the NZ Stock Exchange Cyber Incident Response
Was COVID-19 a ‘Black Swan’? And why this is an important question…
Catalogue request from Grace Parkinson
My Thoughts On Online Exercises
Logging in a Digital Age
Catalogue request from robert olobo
COMING SOON! Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan
Dealing with emotion in crisis communications – the UK results fiasco
Catalogue request from Mirofora Geroulis
What type of incident is business continuity meant to deal with?
Catalogue request from Olaf Blaak
Catalogue request from mrs letitia samuels
Catalogue request from Jaime
Achieving situational awareness during an incident
A Model for Situational Awareness
The Effects of Stress on the Ability of Teams and Individuals to Manage Incidents
Building an Incident Team Competency Framework
Catalogue request from keeley robson
Catalogue request from David Richard Sharnock
Catalogue request from David Richard Sharnock
Catalogue request from Neil Ackers
Why, for many organisations, we are entering the most dangerous period of coronavirus.
quote for CBCI Certification Course (GPG), Live Online, 20-24 July 2020
Why you shouldn’t develop a new Pandemic Plan
quote for CBCI Certification Course (GPG), Live Online, 20-24 July 2020
Catalogue request from Jon Southgate
The Business Continuity Manager’s role in the recovery phase of coronavirus
Catalogue request from CHARLES NDUNGA
COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?
20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Iris (Scotland’s virus exercise in 2018)
Catalogue request from ee yew chuan
Catalogue request from ee yew chuan
Catalogue request from Ankurkumar Desai
Dominic Cummings – A crisis management case study
Marks out of 100 for Easyjet’s Cyber Incident Response
Emergency Communications – Awareness Campaigns
Catalogue request from Rachel Simpson
Why responding to a cyber incident needs an all department response
Catalogue request from Suzanne Renton
20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK's pandemic exercise in 2016) and what happened
Catalogue request from oba okge
COVID-19 – Why you should be conducting a debrief now!
Catalogue request from Carole Frost
Lockdown Learning Webinar Recording - Decision Making During a Crisis
Catalogue request from michael bodi
Catalogue request from Brian Mutale
Crisis Communications - Skype to the rescue
quote for The Great Return: How to Restart Businesses from COVID-19 Lockdown Online Session, 30 April, 10am-12:30pm
Decision Making During a Crisis
Governed Unit of Crisis Management
Organising Your Response Plan
Exercising to Failure
Catalogue request from Suresh
Catalogue request from Daniel Villa
Lockdown Learning Webinar Recording - Developing an Exercise Programme
quote for CBCI Certification Course (GPG), Live Online, 11-15 May 2020
Developing an Exercise Programme
Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule
IT Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity
quote for CBCI Certification Course (GPG), Live Online, 11-15 May 2020
Catalogue request from Ian Carbin
Lockdown Learning Webinar - Avoiding Groupthink: Observations on Decision Making During a Crisis
Battling the COVID-19 Infodemic
Catalogue request from Ann Marie
Avoiding Groupthink: Observations on Decision Making...
Catalogue request from Ahmad Alsharif
Catalogue request from DAVID HARRIS
Overview / Webinars
Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?
Catalogue request from Asad Sabbah
An in-depth look at RTOs: Everything you ever wanted to know!
Business Continuity and Coronavirus - Marks out of 10
Overview / Live Online Courses
Catalogue request from Gavin Blanchfield
Catalogue request from Claire Thomas
After coronavirus, what next?
COVID-19
