COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course will equip delegates to create and implement an effective disaster recovery and business continuity plan, running through the fact gathering stages right through to plan creation, testing and implementation tips.
BACKGROUND: Single, isolated business or service disruptions as well as large-scale, community-wide disasters have shown that a well designed and tested enterprise-wide recovery and continuity plan is essential for business survival. A successful planning methodology will assist not only in recovery, but also ensure continuity of your core strategic and revenue-generating business/service units, operations and processes.
COURSE CONTENT
Objectives and Assumptions
- Business continuity objectives and requirements
- Definitions, terms and assumptions
- Scope and cost of business continuity project
- Business continuity steering committee
- Business continuity policies
Fact Gathering
- Risk analysis
- Business impact analysis and time-sensitive business functions
- Alternative business continuity strategies
- Cost-benefit analysis and selected strategies
- Business continuity programme budget
- Software tools
Plan Creation
- Scope and objectives
- Recovery team concept
- Major plan components
- Vital records and off-site storage
- People
- Emergency response procedures
- Command, control and emergency operations centre
- Delegation/designation of authority
- Detailed resumption, recovery and restoration procedures
- Vendor contracts and purchase of recovery resources
Testing and Plan Review
- Exercise programme and objectives
- Escalation, notification and plan activation
- Corporate awareness programme
- Software tools for update and maintenance
- Review criteria
- Programme status, reporting and audits
- Plan distribution and security
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The programme will be of benefit to anyone involved in the planning, or assurance for the continuity of business operations in the event of a disaster. This includes Chief Operations Officers, Security Managers, Auditors and Compliance Officers.
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