Building a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan

In an era of unpredictable cyber threats and natural disasters, organizations must be prepared to protect their critical data and keep operations running. This course guides you through the fundamental principles of establishing a resilient business continuity framework. You will transition from understanding basic risk concepts to drafting a structured, actionable disaster recovery plan. You'll learn how to identify critical assets, establish recovery objectives, and implement modern defense-in-depth and cloud-based backup strategies. What you'll learn: - Define key disaster recovery terminology, including RTO, RPO, and business impact analysis. - Identify and assess organizational risks from both cyberattacks and physical events. - Design robust backup strategies incorporating modern cloud-based and zero-trust security concepts. - Formulate step-by-step incident response and system restoration procedures. - Establish clear communication protocols and roles for recovery teams during a crisis. - Create a continuous testing and maintenance schedule to keep plans updated. The course starts with essential definitions and foundational risk assessment methodologies before guiding you through the practical steps of drafting and testing your recovery documents. You will learn through clear, written explanations and realistic business scenarios. This course is designed for beginners, IT professionals, system administrators, and business managers who are new to risk management, with no prior disaster recovery experience required. Equip your organization with the resilience needed to survive any disruption by starting your planning journey today.