IT Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery Planning

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.

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
• Understand 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
• Understand 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)
• Understand 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

NOTE : This course  holds as a 3 day, 5 day and 10 day programme