Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery
Management & Leadership · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900
Overview
This course provides participants with concrete solutions, strategies, and insights into the delivery of an effective IT infrastructure and disaster recovery plan with the goal of establishing resilience measures to protect their organizations’ IT. Using tested processes and procedures, participants will analyze the risks and impact of IT operations that threats might cause. A framework for building operational resilience will be provided to deliver an effective response for safeguarding the organization's technology interests and value-creating activities.
Learning Objectives
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 the security of the environment
Describe 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 the asset, human, change and supply chain management that are specific to IT
Discuss 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)
Estimate 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 Plan
Who Should Attend
IT managers and professionals, including Disaster Recovery (DR) managers or anyone responsible for, or involved with, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Business Continuity Plans (BCP), and/or technology and IT auditing.
Target Competencies
Applying IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Conducting Risk Evaluation
Conducting Business Impact Analysis
Incident and Change Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
IT Disaster Recovery Testing
Target Competencies
Applying IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Conducting Risk Evaluation
Conducting Business Impact Analysis
Incident and Change Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
IT Disaster Recovery Testing
Course Outline
Day 1 — IT Infrastructure
The issue of resilience
ISO 27031 Relationship with Information Security Management System (ISMS)
Datacenter and IT infrastructure
Operational sustainability
Day 2 — Managing Recovery Plans
Processes and procedures for supply chain management using a 3PQ (Third Party Questionnaire) approach, aligned with BSI PAS 7000
On and off-site data and information storage, including emergency response arrangements
Change management processes and procedures for day-to-day requirements
Risk control measures for critical supporting equipment and systems
Day 3 — Understanding IT Disaster Recovery (DR) and reviewing the Main Activities
DR lifecycle, including resources and training
IT DR as part of the ISMS
Scope of IT elements and requirements
Day 4 — IT Disaster Recovery Plans
Building technology recovery plans
Plan ownership and structure, and roles and responsibilities of IT DR Team
Data and information sources, and internal and external dependencies
Best practice considerations using ISO 27301, as well as ISO 20000 and ITIL
Day 5 — Audit and Maintenance
What is the function of an IT audit?
Steering Committee and Terms of Reference (ToR’s)
Overriding management review and continuous improvement
Incorporating DR into the organization lifecycle processes and establishing virtual teams
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa management and leadership courses cover?
The portfolio covers KPIs and performance management, strategic planning and execution, Mini MBA programmes, supervisory and first-line management skills, change leadership, decision-making and problem-solving, and executive communication. Sessions are workshop-based, built around delegates’ own organisational challenges.
Who should attend a management and leadership course?
These courses suit team leaders and supervisors, department and functional managers, newly promoted managers moving from technical to leadership roles, senior specialists preparing for management, and executives responsible for strategy or organisational performance.
How long are management and leadership courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa management and leadership courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can management and leadership training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa management and leadership course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.