SEC 420 - Data Integrity and Disaster Recovery

• What Is Business Continuity Management?
• How Is Business Continuity Implemented?
• Criticality
• Severity Levels
• Scenarios and Risks
• The Five Possible Outcome Scenarios
• The Importance of Time
• Who Does What?
• When Do You Do BCM?
• Standards
• BCM vs. Disaster Recovery
• Where Do You Stand Today? Take the Continuity Assessment
• Start with the Essentials
• Senior Management Involvement
• Employee Buy-in Plan

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• Understand What’s Critical
• Completing a BIA
• Analyzing the BIA
• Risk Analysis
• Residual Risk
• What a Business Continuity Plan Should Include
• Essential Ingredients of a BCP
• Structuring Your BCP
• Identify What Will Trigger Your BCP
• Create Battle Boxes and Grab Bags
• Create a One-Page Wallet Plan
• Mitigate Risk
• Identify Roles
• Have Accountable Managers Approve Plans
• What Is DR?
• Risks and Issues Associated with DR
• DR Solutions for IT
• Basic DR Concepts and Technology
• DR Roles and Responsibilities
• DR and Projects
• Documenting DR Risks
• Preparing a DR Business Case
• Undertake a DR Project
• The Change Process
• Get DR Going Live
• What Does Business Recovery Involve?
• Understand Resilient Functions
• Understand Recoverable Functions
• Employ Manual Workarounds
• Size Your Solution
• Business Recovery Options
• Remediation: Identify Gaps in the Plan
• Prepare a Business Continuity Business Case

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• Have a Plan in Place
• Assessing Third-Party Risk
• Business Continuity and Contracts
• Selecting Business Continuity Suppliers
• Demand Good Service
• The Point of Education
• Education and Awareness Program
• What Are Your Needs?
• Measuring Education and Awareness
• Create a Policy
• Set Standards and Create Processes
• Assign Steering and Management Accountability
• Assess Maturity Annually
• Manage Information
• Audit Plans and Actions Regularly

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• Why Test?
• You Must Be a Realist
• What Testing Proves
• Types of Testing
• Testing Scenarios
• Conduct Desktop Walkthrough Exercises
• Leveraging Scenarios
• Apply Basic Project Management Tools to Disaster Recovery Tests
• Assign Disaster Recovery Testing Roles and Responsibilities
• Use Scenario-Based Disaster Recovery Testing
• Plan DR Tests Well
• Engage Management in the Disaster Recovery Test
• Provide the Right Resources
• Manage Test Risk
• Report Results Quickly
• Apply Basic Project Management Tools to Work Area Recovery Tests
• Assign Work Area Recovery Testing Roles and Responsibilities
• Observation Roles and Responsibilities for Work Area Recovery Tests
• Use Scenario-Based Testing for Work Area Recovery
• Engage Management in Work Area Recovery Tests
• Engage Users in Work Area Recovery Testing
• Provide the Right Resources
• Manage Test Risks
• Report Results Quickly
• Closing a Work Area Recovery Test

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• Key Elements in Crisis Management Exercises
• Choose a Meaningful Crisis Scenario
• People Need a Successful Outcome
• Developing the Crisis Management Team
• Improving the Crisis Management Process
• Make Sure Exercise Materials Are Appropriate
• Employ Quality Inputs to the Exercise
• Use Timeouts
• Engage Management
• Rotate Participants
• Conduct Crisis Exercises Frequently
• Report Frequently and Accurately
• Exercise Roles and Responsibilities
• Closing a Crisis Exercise
• Never Forget: Disaster Recovery Is an Essential Function
• Review Change Management Processes and Controls
• Identify Events that Trigger Business Continuity Management Reviews
• Maintain Your Business Continuity Plan
• Business Recovery Solution Maintenance
• Maintain Your Information Technology Disaster Recovery Solution
• Maintain Your Crisis Management Plan
• Maintain Your Policies

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