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.

Dates & Venues

Dates	Venue	Delivery	Duration	Fee (USD)
November 29 – December 3, 2026	Dubai, UAE	Public	5 days	3,900
April 25–29, 2027	Online / Virtual	Virtual	5 days	2,500
August 22–26, 2027	Online / Virtual	Virtual	5 days	2,500
November 14–18, 2027	Online / Virtual	Virtual	5 days	2,500

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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 programs; 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.

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