Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity

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You will learn how to

• Create, document and test continuity arrangements for your organization
• 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
• Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment

Course benefits
The high availability of mission-critical processes is a major requirement for the viability of the modern organization. A disaster could negate the capability of the organization to provide uninterrupted service to its customers.

In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats. You learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for those managing and maintaining the continuity of an organization's critical processes or capabilities.

Course workshop
Throughout this course, you gain practical skills through a series of interactive small-group workshops and an evolving case study. You design and develop a disaster recovery plan. Workshops include:

• Assessing threats
• Avoiding disasters
• Identifying the impact on critical business functions
• Recognizing alternatives for continuing business functions
• Planning your continuity project
• Organizing team structures for use in an emergency
• Creating a recovery plan from the response to a disaster

Course content
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

• Business continuity vs. disaster recovery
• Why a recovery plan is a crucial asset
• Sources of threat
• Government codes and legislative requirements

MEASURING RISK AND AVOIDING DISASTER

• Assessing risk in the enterprise
• Choosing the assessment method
• The five-step risk process
• Matching the response to the threat
• Identifying mission-critical continuity needs
• Evaluating which functions are critical
• Setting priorities based on time horizons
• Prioritizing processes and applications
• Implementing disaster avoidance
• Avoiding disasters through effective preventive planning
• Creating contingency plans for unavoidable threats
• The four-step Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
• Identifying the threat
• Assessing the risk to the enterprise
• Identifying business-critical activities
• Specifying required IT support from technical staff

DESIGNING RECOVERY SOLUTIONS

• Establishing a disaster recovery site
• Site choices: configuration and acquisition
• Choosing suppliers: in-house vs. third-party
• Specifying equipment
• Selecting backup and restore strategies
• Matching strategy to operational constraints
• Meeting the organization's storage requirements for vital records
• Restoring communications and recovering users
• Determining vital users with the BIA
• Rerouting voice, mail, goods delivery
• Eliminating network single points of failure
• Connecting end users
• Meeting varied user-recovery needs

IMPLEMENTING A PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACH

• Managing and documenting the planning project
• Identifying stakeholders
• Analyzing stakeholder needs
• Obtaining the funding commitments
• Defining clear goals at the start
• Running the project
• Controlling the project via tracking
• Managing risks and issues
• Testing deliverables

RESPONDING TO DISASTER

• Creating the recovery plan
• Capturing the planning output
• Creating recovery-team charters
• Defining roles and responsibilities
• Responding to recovery scenarios
• Information directories and equipment inventories
• Directing the disaster recovery teams
• Planning and conducting Crisis Communications
• Connecting with emergency services
• Team actions following a disaster

ASSURING THE PLAN AND APPLYING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

• Rehearsing the business continuity plan
• The reasons for testing the plan
• Considering the impact on the organization's activities
• Using a step-by-step process to test the plan
• Developing test scenarios and using test results effectively
• Maintaining the business continuity plan
• Applying change control: why and how
• Ensuring normal developments are accounted for in the plan
• Scheduling regular reviews
• Applying document management discipline to the plan

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