Disaster Prevention & Recovery Management: Handling IT Risks

Introduction to Disaster Management

• Disasters: Overview and Types
• How disasters expose the internal controls system
• Elements and requirements IT Disaster Management
• Technology - Business Impact Analysis of disasters
• Legislations, Regulations and Standards related to disaster management

Conducting Incident Management

• Detection
• Response
• Mitigation
• Reporting
• Recovery
• Remediation
• Lessons learned

IT Business Continuity (BC)

• BC as a key Management Responsibility
• BC Policy requirements
• Building Technology Recovery plans
• Implementing a BC program and its Leadership
• Performing Business Continuity (BC) planning and exercises

IT Disaster Recovery (DR)

• DR Lifecycle
• Preventive V Corrective Measures
• Threat modeling with a risk Analysis
• Roles and Responsibilities of IT DR Team

Operating and maintaining detective and preventative measures

• Firewalls
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Whitelisting/blacklisting
• Third-party provided security services
• Sandboxing
• Honeypots/honeynets
• Anti-malware

Implementing recovery strategies

• Backup storage strategies
• Recovery site strategies
• Multiple processing sites
• System resilience, high availability, Quality of Service (QoS), and fault tolerance

Implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) processes

• Response
• Personnel
• Communications
• Assessment
• Restoration
• Training and awareness

Testing Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)

• Read-through/tabletop
• Walkthrough
• Simulation
• Parallel
• Full interruption

Implementing Change Management processes

• Introduction
• Best Practices

FOR WHOM: CIOs, IT Development Managers, Heads of Department, System Administrators/Engineers, IT Professionals and others who want to sharpen their knowledge in IT world.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

1ST BATCH: 5th – 8th May, 2020    

2ND BATCH: 20th – 23rd October, 2020