Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity | 28 Dec 2025 | 01 Jan 2026 | Al-Khobar, KSA | $ 4,500 | Register |

Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity | 28 Dec 2025 | 01 Jan 2026 | Al-Khobar, KSA | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
A major disaster could cripple your organization, suspending mission-critical processes and disrupting service to your customers. In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes.
Objectives
- Create, document and test continuity arrangements for your organization
- Perform a risk assessment and Business Impact Assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
- Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
- Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
- Organize and manage recovery teams
- Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone responsible for ensuring the continuity of an organization's critical systems or processes, including project managers, help desk personnel, engineers, and human resources professionals
Course Outline
Introduction and Overview
- Business continuity vs. disaster recovery
- Why a recovery plan is a crucial asset
- Sources of threat
- Government codes and legislative requirements
Measuring Risk and Avoiding Disaster
Assessing risk in the enterprise
- Choosing the assessment method
- The five-step risk process
- Matching the response to the threat
Identifying mission-critical continuity needs
- 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 four-step Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
- Identifying the threat
- Assessing the risk to the enterprise
- Identifying business-critical activities
- Specifying required IT support from technical staff
Designing Recovery Solutions
Establishing a disaster recovery site
- Site choices: configuration and acquisition
- Choosing suppliers: in-house vs. third-party
- Specifying equipment
Selecting backup and restore strategies
- Matching strategy to operational constraints
- Meeting the organization's storage requirements for vital records
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
Implementing a Project Management Approach
Managing and documenting the planning project
- Identifying stakeholders
- Analyzing stakeholder needs
- Obtaining the funding commitments
- Defining clear goals at the start
Running the project
- Controlling the project via tracking
- Managing risks and issues
- Testing deliverables
Responding to Disaster
Creating the recovery plan
- Capturing the planning output
- Creating recovery-team charters
- Defining roles and responsibilities
- Responding to recovery scenarios
- Information directories and equipment inventories
Directing the disaster recovery teams
- Planning and conducting Crisis Communications
- Connecting with emergency services
- Team actions following a disaster
Assuring the Plan and Applying Document Management
Rehearsing the business continuity 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 business continuity plan
- Applying change control: why and how
- Ensuring normal developments are accounted for in the plan
- Scheduling regular reviews
Applying document management discipline to the plan