Are You Really Ready? Effective Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

📋 Overview

Disaster can come in many forms, from a flood to a data breach, to the death of a critical member of your team. When a disaster happens, it is never at a convenient time. It doesn’t matter if it is the holidays, right before your vacation, or at the end of a grueling busy season. It just happens and you’re left to pick up the pieces. The first 24 hours of a disaster are the most critical. How are you going to get back online? How are you going to organize a safe work environment for your staff? How are you going to communicate what has occurred and what you are doing to resolve it to your stakeholders? An organization that is without its data or communications for a prolonged period has a significant risk of going out of business. Every minute of downtime is lost productivity, a missed deadline, or a forfeited opportunity. It isn’t a matter of if a disaster occurs, but when it does occur how you will respond. This course will discuss a wide range of disasters from acts of God to man-made calamities, including data breaches and employee maleficence. It offers insight into the major risks, their causes, methods for mitigation of risks, and recommendations for resolution. It will have a detailed discussion on how using technology effectively can help minimize and hedge business risk and ensure continuity of operations. It will examine best practices for data security, the use of hot/cold sites, how to ensure that data is properly backed up, utilizing the Cloud for enhanced redundancy, and more. It is a good course for any organization that is concerned about the continuity of operations and surviving a disaster.

👥 Who Should Attend

🎯 Learning Objectives

• Identify the major types of disasters, how they occur, and the impact on the organization.
• Outline best practices and steps necessary to resolve and mitigate the most common types of disasters inside an organization.
• Analyze the financial, environmental, and societal impact of a disaster on an organization.
• Develop a plan to identify the major risks to an organization and make recommendations to management to mitigate exposure.
• Identify existing business functionalities that could be moved to the Cloud to help reduce operating risk to the organization.
• Select various technologies, vendors, platforms, apps, and tools that an organization can use to help prevent, mitigate, or resolve the most common disasters.

🚀 What You'll Walk Away With

• Classify disasters by their specific impact on your daily operations.
• Pinpoint which business functions are safest when moved to the Cloud.
• Draft a formal risk mitigation plan to present to your management team.
• Select the right vendors and tools to maintain your data redundancy.
• Calculate the financial and societal costs of potential downtime.

📚 Major Topics

1. Importance of Data Loss
2. Benefits of Cloud Technology
3. Disaster Planning Resources
4. Overall Security Recommendations

🏷️ Topics

❓ Questions

✍️ A Note from the Author

I wrote this course because I've seen too many organizations realize they don't have a plan only after the water starts rising or the servers go dark. It's easy to assume your backups are enough until you're actually forced to use them under pressure. This is for the professionals who want to stop reacting to emergencies and start building a resilient operation that survives the unexpected.