Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery Planning (CITDRP) |Smart

Overview

Why Attend

This course provides participants with concrete solutions, strategies and insights into the delivery of an effective IT infrastructure and disaster recovery plan with the goal of establishing resilience measures to protect their organizations’ IT.

Using tested processes and procedures, participants will analyze the risks and impact to IT operations that threats might cause. A framework for building operational resilience will be provided to deliver an effective response for safeguarding the organizations technology interests and value-creating activities.

This practical course provides participants with a framework that considers ISO 27031, ISO 20000, ITIL and ISO 22301, aligned with the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013 and NCEMA 7000-2012.

Course Methodology

This course will be highly interactive and includes group discussions, videos, case studies and syndicate work.

Risk Evaluation, BIA and High Level IT DR Plan Templates will be applied during the course and given for use after the course. Supporting information, such as Steering Committee Terms of Reference (ToR’s), Change Management, DR Test Strategy and testing processes and procedures will also be made available.

It includes specific templates for carrying-out a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) as well as completion of an IT DR Plan (DRP) that participants will be able to take away for use in their own organizations.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Consider policies, objectives, targets, processes and procedures that are relevant to managing risk and improving IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Apply best practice to build IT infrastructure and operational sustainability, including security of the environment
Describe the processes and procedures to carry out a risk evaluation and identify risks, threats, hazards, vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could affect your organization
Review the key components of asset, human, change and supply chain management that are specific to IT
Discuss the components of a successful IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Program, including data management and the key components that are necessary to carry out a technology Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Estimate the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD), to then identify the relationship with Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Produce a High Level IT Disaster Recovery Plan

Target Audience

IT managers and professionals, including Disaster Recovery (DR) managers or anyone responsible for, or involved with, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and/or technology and IT auditing.

Target Competencies

Applying IT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC)
Conducting Risk Evaluation
Conducting Business Impact Analysis
Incident and Change Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
IT Disaster Recovery Testing

Course Outline

IT infrastructure
- The issue of resilience
- ISO 27031 Relationship with Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- Data center and IT infrastructure
- Operational sustainability
  - Data center site infrastructure tier standard
  - Elements of operational sustainability
- Infrastructure strategy and policy
  - The strategy – how and depth
  - The policy requirements
  - Site and building protection
  - Network and information systems protection
Risk evaluation and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Site and building risk assessment
- PESTLE analysis (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental)
- Types of BIA; strategic, tactical and operational
- Implementation methods for technology BIA
Managing recovery plans
- Processes and procedures for supply chain management using a 3PQ (Third Party Questionnaire) approach, aligned with BSI PAS 7000
- On and off-site data and information storage, including emergency response arrangements
- Change management processes and procedures for day-to-day requirements
- Risk control measures for critical supporting equipment and systems
Understanding IT Disaster Recovery (DR) and reviewing the main activities
- DR lifecycle, including resources and training
- IT DR as part of the ISMS
- Scope of IT elements and requirements
IT disaster recovery plans
- Building technology recovery plans
  - Plan ownership and structure, and roles and responsibilities of IT DR Team
  - Data and information sources, and internal and external dependencies
  - Best practice considerations using ISO 27301, as well as ISO 20000 and ITIL
  - Managing and recovering end-user computing and communications technology and infrastructure
  - Recovery options
- Developing, implementing and testing
  - Ownership and plan structure
  - Roles and responsibilities of BC Champion and Team Leaders
  - Command, Coordination, Communications and Intelligence (C3i)
  - Role of the command center and essentials
  - Equipment and supporting information
  - Producing Situation Reports (SITREPS)
  - Types of testing/exercising
- Major incident response
  - Defining an “incident” and the escalation process
  - Establishing Command, Coordination and Communications (3C)
  - Clarifying the role of the Network Operations Centre (NOC)
  - Emergency response and plan invocation
  - Consideration of the supporting information, equipment and systems required
  - Production of Situation Reports (SITREPS), activity logging and tools
- Post incident review
  - Learning from incidents
  - The value of post-incident review
  - Post-incident process
Audit and maintenance
- What is the function of an IT audit?
- Steering Committee and Terms of Reference (ToR’s)
- Overriding management review and continuous improvement
- Incorporating DR into the organization lifecycle processes and establishing virtual teams
- DR documentation and working with internal and external audit functions

Schedule & Fees

2026 Schedule & Fees

11 - 15 Oct, 2026

English

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Oct, 2026

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

22 - 26 Nov, 2026

English

Per participant USD 2,900

22 - 26 Nov, 2026

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

2027 Schedule & Fees

10 - 14 Jan, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Jan, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

21 - 25 Feb, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

21 - 25 Feb, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Apr, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Apr, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

23 - 27 May, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

23 - 27 May, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Jul, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Jul, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

22 - 26 Aug, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

22 - 26 Aug, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Oct, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Oct, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

21 - 25 Nov, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

21 - 25 Nov, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery Planning (CITDRP)

Overview

Why Attend

Course Methodology

Course Objectives

Target Audience

Target Competencies

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

2026 Schedule & Fees

2027 Schedule & Fees

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