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Policies and defined procedures surrounding back-up processes, incident management, disaster recovery and business continuity drastically reduce the risk associated with ransomware, system outages and natural disasters. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is vital to ensuring the ongoing ability to conduct business in the event of a disruption. Such plans provide detailed procedures to recover disrupted systems and help return organizations to business as normal. The primary purpose of disaster recovery and business continuity plans is to minimize negative impacts operationally and financially.

This course takes you through the steps required to put together Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans. We delve into the most important recovery planning considerations and review several questionnaires and templates to help get you started. Additionally, we delve into understanding the processes of monitoring, documentation, and escalation. Lastly, we discuss methodologies for successful implementation and training requirements.

Course Key Concepts: Ransomware, back-up, incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, IR, DR, BCP, BCM.

Learning Objectives
  • Discover and define incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity.
  • Identify critical components of incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
  • Identify process controls to consider when developing incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
  • Discover strategies for implementing, testing and maintaining the plans.
  • Explore solutions available to assist with writing and maintaining the plans.
Last updated/reviewed: March 23, 2024

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10 CoursesInformation Technology Auditor Certification

  1. Understanding Information Technology Governance and the Application of NIST
  2. Performing a Security Risk Assessment
  3. Auditing Data Security IT Computer Controls
  4. Auditing Third Party Service Providers and Cloud Environments
  5. Auditing Automated Business and Financial Transaction Processes
  6. Auditing Logical Security and Logical Access Controls
  7. Auditing Change Management
  8. Auditing the Network
  9. The Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
  10. Information Technology Audit Summary
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Anonymous Author
I liked that this was a more concise course and that it contained practical tools that as an auditor I can use to conduct a review of BC/DR and the Incident Response Plan.

Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.

Education Provider Information
Company: Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact: For more information regarding this course, including complaint and cancellation policies, please contact our offices at (408) 400- 3993 or send an e-mail to .
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Course Syllabus
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  Introduction to the Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning3:33
  Definitions14:18
  What is the Relationship4:12
  Motivations for Managing Continuity11:12
  Primary Components of An Incident Response5:31
  Primary Components of a Disaster Recovery Plan11:26
  Primary Components of a Business Continuity Plan16:15
CONTINUOUS PLAY
  The Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning1:06:27
SUPPORTING MATERIAL
  Slides: The Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity PlanningPDF
  The Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Glossary/ IndexPDF
REVIEW AND TEST
  REVIEW QUESTIONSquiz
 FINAL EXAMexam