IT Disaster Recovery Planning

Programmes Manager — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:26:28 +0000

Disaster Recovery Planning for Employees from all organisations such as Government, NGOs and the Private Sector Companies. You get either a Laptop or Tablet which you take home after your training. The cost is very affordable and the hours are very flexible. APPLY NOW

Why Attend IT Disaster Recovery Planning

This course provides participants with concrete solutions, strategies and insights into the delivery of an effective IT infrastructure and disaster recovery plan with the goal of establishing resilience measures to protect their organizations’ IT.

Using tested processes and procedures, participants will analyze the risks and impact to IT operations that threats might cause. A framework for building operational resilience will be provided to deliver an effective response for safeguarding the organizations technology interests and value-creating activities.

This practical course provides participants with a framework that considers ISO 27031, ISO 20000, ITIL and ISO 22301, aligned with the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013 and NCEMA 7000-2012.

IT Disaster Recovery Planning Course Methodology

This course will be highly interactive and include group discussions, videos, case studies and syndicate work.

Risk Evaluation, BIA and High Level IT DR Plan Templates will be applied during the course and given for use after the course. Supporting information, such as Steering Committee Terms of Reference (ToR’s), Change Management, DR Test Strategy and testing processes and procedures will also be made available.

It includes specific templates for carrying-out a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) as well as completion of an IT DR Plan (DRP) that participants will be able to take away for use in their own organizations.

IT Disaster Recovery Planning Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Consider policies, objectives, targets, processes and procedures that are relevant to managing risk and improving IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Apply best practice to build IT infrastructure and operational sustainability, including security of the environment
Describe the processes and procedures to carry out a risk evaluation and identify risks, threats, hazards, vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could affect your organization
Review the key components of asset, human, change and supply chain management that are specific to IT
Discuss the components of a successful IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Program, including data management and the key components that are necessary to carry out a technology Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Estimate the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD), to then identify the relationship with Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Produce a High Level IT Disaster Recovery Plan

IT Disaster Recovery Planning Target Audience

IT managers and professionals, including Disaster Recovery (DR) managers or anyone responsible for, or involved with, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and/or technology and IT auditing.

Target Competencies

Applying IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Conducting Risk Evaluation
Conducting Business Impact Analysis
Incident and Change Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
IT Disaster Recovery Testing