Are you and your team members prepared for a business disruption? Natural disasters, technology glitches, human failures, sabotage, and terrorism threaten businesses of all sizes today. In this course, you will learn how to develop and implement a business continuity plan (BCP) to help manage the risks associated with business interruptions. In addition, you will learn how to address critical issues related to staffing, how virtualization can speed recovery times, and how Cloud-based storage, synchronization, and mirrored databases can help ensure that you always have access to your critical data and applications. Most importantly, you will learn to identify your organization's significant risks and create an effective plan to address these contingencies.
Today's technology-dependent organizations must have a plan for operating when facilities, power, communications, or technology fail or become compromised. Unfortunately, many companies only learn about critical infrastructure weaknesses after experiencing an outage. Participate in this course and learn how to identify, understand, and develop strategies for mitigating risks of business interruption.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
Define the goals and activities involved in the creation of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and contrast a BCP with a data backup strategy
Identify and assess critical risks to a company's operations
Classify identified risks into four timeframes for creating disaster recovery plans
Define three different types of data backups and explain the vital differences in how to create and store each so it can achieve its desired purpose
Major Topics
Identifying risks to Business Continuity
Differentiating between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Implementing effective backup strategies
Creating an effective Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan
