Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Disaster Recovery Plan
Disasters are never planned and can have an immense impact on a company's ability to conduct business and ultimately survive after the incident. Learning how to properly design and implement a disaster recovery plan is critical.
What you'll learn
Disasters can strike anytime, anywhere and for any reason. They can come from inside a company via a disgruntled employee, corporate spies or simple carelessness, or externally via natural disasters, terrorist attacks, acts of war, etc. In this course, Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Disaster Recovery Plan, you will learn the foundations of creating, implementing and maintaining a functional disaster recovery plan that can span multiple areas and address protecting a company's critical assets and infrastructure. First you will learn how to properly evaluate risks and threats as well as how to develop strategies to mitigate those risks. From there you will learn the various types of plans that are needed, covering administration, workplace, technical assets and even pandemic outbreaks. Finally, you'll learn the various methods to test these plans, from walk-through testing to full exercises that trigger a full fail-over to alternate sites. When you're finished this course you'll have the skills to work on disaster recovery planning that ensures your company's assets are protected and the company can continue to do business during and after a critical incident.
Table of contents
- Module Intro 1m
- Importance of Disaster Recovery 2m
- Establishing the Business Case 2m
- Importance of Executive Buy-in 2m
- What's the Benefit of Spending the Money? 4m
- Vulnerabilities and Assessing Risk 4m
- Chain of Consequence 3m
- Defining Project Scope 1m
- Defining Critical Processes and Functions 1m
- Example Milestones 1m
- Developing Strategy 1m
- Challenges When Developing Strategy 3m
- Recovery Site Options 4m
- Wired Brain Coffee and How it Applies in the Real World 4m
- Module Intro and Components of a Recovery Strategy 2m
- Main Types of Recovery Strategies 1m
- Administrative Plan 1m
- Administrative Recovery Plan: Main Areas 3m
- Business Continuity Program Sponsor 1m
- Business Continuity Manager 1m
- IT Business Continuity Manager 1m
- Technical Recovery Team 2m
- Technical Recovery Plan 3m
- Work Area Recovery Plan 3m
- Pandemic Plan 2m
- Assembling the Team 1m
- Notable Pandemics throughout History 2m
- Key Elements of Each Plan 1m
- Covering the Gaps 1m
- Elements of Risk Analysis 2m
- Crisis Management Plan 3m
- Key Points to Remember 3m
- Module Intro 1m
- Calls for Immediate Action 2m
- Defining the Problem and Solution 2m
- Fundamentals of Success 1m
- Essential Plan Components 3m
- Supporting Recovery Efforts 3m
- Emergency Operations Center 1m
- Emergency Operations Plan 3m
- Main Functions of Emergency Operations Center 2m
- Emergency Operations Primary Teams 2m
- Emergency Operations Center Equipment 3m
- Additional Equipment 1m
- Additional Staffing Requirements 2m
- Key Takeaways and Module Review 2m
- Module Intro 1m
- Defining Goals and Expected Outcomes 3m
- Types of Testing and Exercises 2m
- Communications 1m
- Simulations or Table-Top Exercises 1m
- Partial Exercise 1m
- Full Exercise 1m
- Testing Cost and Complexity 1m
- Reviewing Plans and Maintenance 2m
- Wired Brain Coffee's Testing 2m
- Framework Examples and ISO 22301 2m
- Plan-Do-Check-Act 3m
- ISO 22301 Structure 1m
- Certifying the Plan 3m
About the author
Chris is a professional information technologist, author, trainer, manager and a lifelong learner. He is married with 3 beautiful children and interested in working out, spending time with family and friends and being creative whenever possible. He has been an author for over 25 years and has created over 60 IT Certification training courses. Chris really enjoys helping people advance in their careers through training and personal development.