The Importance of Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

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.