Disaster Recovery 101 - Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Business continuity planning for unforeseen disasters impacting on normal business operations within your organisation

What you'll learn

The basics surrounding disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Different types of disasters and some mitigations against them
Data protection compliance during a disaster situation
Bring your own device (BYOD) and security implications

Requirements

To have a basic level of understanding about how a business operates

Description

Over this course, we'll be covering the basics surrounding DR and BCP planning, as well as some different types of disasters and the best ways to mitigate against them.


Topics on this course are as follows:

* Overview of DR and BCP Planning

* Mitigating against different types of disasters

* Common issues than can occur during a DR test or real world disaster

* Assessing the impact of a DR test or disaster on your business

* Maintaining data protection compliance during a disaster situation

* Implications of allowing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

* Security considerations


Also included on the course are some examples of how a DR plan would be implemented in the real world, for example having key members of staff available throughout testing and having a way to contact them quickly should a real world disaster occur.

Who this course is for:

IT Support Technicians and IT Managers who are working in any size of organisation