Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity


Course Benefits

A major disaster could cripple your organization, suspending mission-critical processes and disrupting service to your customers. In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes. You learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.

The course is offered as a 1.5 day workshop course at the Disaster Recovery Journal's Spring World 2011 Conference on Saturday March 26th and Sunday March 27th, 2011. KingsBridge has partnered with Learning Tree, a world leader in hands-on IT training since 1974, to deliver this training at the DRJ Conference. Please check with www.drj.com for applicable fees and availability.



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Course Participation Bonus!

Three months of free unrestricted access to Phoenix for SharePoint™ SaaS online service for documenting your Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Pandemic plan.



Course Content

Introduction and Overview

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

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