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Outline
The high availability of mission-critical systems and communications
is a major requirement for the viability of the modern organization.
A disaster, ranging from the occasional power surge to a debilitating
attack, could negate the capability of the organization to provide
uninterrupted service to its customers.
In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement
appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks.
You learn techniques for creating a continuity plan and the methodology
for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.
Introduction and overview
- Types of threats:
natural, man-made, physical damage and system attacks
- Why a disaster
recovery (DR) plan is needed
Measuring risk and avoiding disaster
Assessing risk in the enterprise - Choosing the assessment
methods appropriate to your situation
- The 5-step risk process
- Matching
the response to the threat
Identifying mission-critical processes
and systems - Evaluating which functions are critical
- Setting
priorities based on time horizons
- Prioritizing processes and applications
Implementing disaster avoidance - Avoiding disasters
through effective preventive planning
- Creating contingency plans for
unavoidable threats
The 4-step Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
- Identifying the threat
- Assessing the risk to the enterprise
- Determining
the organization's critical business activities
- Providing required support
from Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Designing recovery solutions
Establishing a DR site
- Identifying the need for an alternative site
- Site choices: hot, warm,
or cold standby
- Build vs. rent or share
- Choosing suppliers:
in-house vs. third-party
- Specifying equipment
Selecting
backup and restore strategies - Backup/restore techniques: full,
incremental and differential
- Choosing a backup strategy based on restore
needs and operational constraints
- Meeting the organization's storage
requirements for paper and magnetic records
- Knowing your choices: high
availability and non-stop solutions
Storage backup and recovery tools- Managing
stored data and applications with current tools
- The impact of Storage
Area Networks (SANs) on recovery provision
- Current trends in recovery
Restoring
communications and recovering users - Determining vital users with
the BIA
- Rerouting voice, mail, goods delivery
- Eliminating network
single points of failure
- Connecting end users
- Meeting varied
user-recovery needs
Managing and documenting recovery
Implementing a project management approach - Identifying the
stakeholders and their project roles
- Defining clear goals at the start
Running the project - Controlling the project via
tracking
- Managing risks and issues
- Testing deliverables
Creating
the recovery plan Capturing the planning output in the
DR plan - Creating recovery-team charters
- Recovery scenarios
- Directories and inventories
Directing the disaster recovery
team - Defining roles and responsibilities
- Team actions
following a disaster
Assuring the plan and applying
document management Rehearsing the DR plan
- The reasons for testing the plan
- Considering the impact on the organization's
activities
- Using a step-by-step process to test the plan
- Developing
test scenarios and using test results effectively
Maintaining
the DR plan - Applying change control: why and how
- Ensuring
normal developments are accounted for in the DR plan
- Scheduling regular
reviews
- Applying document management discipline to the plan
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