Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Professional
Course Overview
The Course is based on the BCM life cycle set out in BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines, BS 25999 standard and the EC Council Disaster recovery techniques-set. As such, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of both the framework and practical issues surrounding the different stages of the BCM life cycle. The course will also enable delegates to confidently sit the BCI Certificate Examination and the EC Council Disaster recovery professional examination.
Who should attend?
The course is aimed at any individual who would like to gain a comprehensive understanding of the BCM life cycle from both a principle and ‘good practice’ perspective. The course is ideally suited to those who have been given business continuity responsibilities and need to understand the theoretical framework and practical issues surrounding the BCM life cycle.
Benefits
By the end of the course, delegates will have a clear understanding of all the key components of the BCM life cycle. The focus of the course is not just on ‘what to do’ but on ‘how to do it’. In this regard, delegates will greatly benefit from the practical experiences of our trainers who are all practising business continuity and risk management consultants.
Duration: 5 Days
Day One: Policy, Programme Management and Culture
1. Business continuity management (BCM) life cycle
2. Policy (scope, contents, roles, responsibilities, legislation and regulation)
3. Programme management (tasks and responsibilities, implementing BCM and ongoing management)
4. Culture (building a BCM culture, awareness and training)
5. Determining BCM drivers
6. Identifying who in an organisation should be involved in BCM
7. Creating a ‘culture’ dashboard for own organisation
Day Two: Understanding the Organisation
1. Purpose of ‘Understanding the Organisation’
2. Business impact analysis (concepts and assumptions, process)
3. Recovery requirements
4. Risk assessment (RA) - concept of RA, process RA, how to perform a RA
5. Project planning
6. Determining maximum data loss
7. Assessing probability of risks
Day Three: Determining Business Continuity Strategy
1. Strategy options and basic design continuity options
2. Selection of possibilities
3. Business case (contents of document, ‘Go or No Go’)
4. Realisation and implementation of resources
5. Assessing importance of resources
6. Drawing up off-site storage requirements
7. Selecting strategy options
8. Drawing up external service level agreements
Day Four: Developing a BCM Response
1. Alarming and escalation plans
2. Realising employee safety plans
3. Crisis management (organisation, resources and process)
4. Stakeholder management
5. Continuity plans
6. Realisation (organisation and procedures)
7. Differentiating between crisis and incident management plans
8. Selecting members of crisis management teams
9. Drawing up communication options
10. Selecting type of continuity plans
Day Five: Exercising, Maintaining and Reviewing BCM
1. Arrangements
2. Definitions of testing and exercising
3. Types of tests
4. Maintenance
5. Audit (measuring quality, reporting methods, recipients of reporting)
6. Selecting scenario for functional test
7. Determining success criteria
8. Reviewing audit process in context of own Organisation
9. Data Recovery
10. System Recovery
11. Backup and Recovery
12. Centralized and Decentralized System Recovery
13. Windows Data Recovery Tools
14. Linux, Mac and Novell Netware Data Recovery Tools
15. Role of Public Services in Disaster
16. Case Study: Improving Disaster Recovery without Breaking the Bank and other sample case studies
Duration: 5 days
Dates: Jun 6-10th, Oct 17-21st
Fee: N 325,000(Exclusive of VAT)