What Is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
Start learning business continuity and disaster recovery strategies to keep your organization resilient during crises. Discover how to create effective BCP and DRP frameworks, perform impact analysis, and plan for rapid system and data recovery.
Last update: Jan 2025
Audio Language: English
Subtitles/Captions: Yes
Type of Training: Online, self-paced
Focus: Cyber Security Compliance Training Courses, Cyber Security Courses
Caption Language: English
What You’ll Learn
What Is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery will teach you:
- Business continuity plans: Build comprehensive strategies to ensure uninterrupted operations.
- Business impact analysis: Identify vital processes and assess risks.
- Alternative sites: Evaluate hot, warm, and cold site options for continuity.
- Crisis management: Prepare for natural disasters, cyberattacks, and other threats.
- Disaster recovery: Develop procedures to recover critical systems and data after disruptions.
- Recovery objectives: Understand MTD, RTO, and RPO to prioritize recovery.
- Organizational resilience: Strengthen your organization's ability to respond and recover.
- Regulatory requirements: Ensure compliance with standards and frameworks.
Included in the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
1 Hours of On-Demand Video
Access on Mobile
Certificate of Completion
Suitable for the Following Careers
Business Continuity Manager
Risk Analyst
IT Disaster Recovery Specialist
Operations Manager
Cybersecurity Consultant
Compliance Officer
Course Content
Descrition
Description of Training
Preview
BCP / DRP
Audio Version of Training
Audio Download
Preview
Requirements
Basic understanding of IT infrastructure
Familiarity with organizational operations
Access to business data and process documentation
Stable internet connection for online access
Description of What Is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
This course delivers a practical foundation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning. You’ll explore core principles of BCP and DRP, from identifying critical business functions and risks to creating structured recovery procedures that minimize disruption and data loss. The training incorporates key planning metrics like Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and introduces you to business impact analysis and risk assessment techniques.
You’ll also gain insights into continuity strategies using alternative sites, cloud workloads, and data center backup systems. With case scenarios and actionable frameworks, you’ll be equipped to design plans that help your organization maintain operations during disaster scenarios and resume normal operations quickly and effectively.
- Create and implement business continuity plans tailored to organizational needs
- Conduct business impact analyses and identify mission-critical functions
- Design disaster recovery strategies based on RTO and RPO metrics
- Plan for communication technology readiness and power outage contingencies
- Evaluate third-party vendor support in continuity planning
- Understand how to maintain essential services during business disruptions
Through this course, you'll gain the expertise needed to implement business continuity management frameworks and recovery processes that keep operations running, even when disaster occurs. With hands-on knowledge of business continuity strategy, risk analysis, and disaster recovery planning, you’ll be equipped to safeguard your organization’s critical data and functions under any circumstance.
Who Is This Course For
This course is ideal for professionals involved in risk management, IT infrastructure, compliance, or business operations who need to understand and implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. It’s also valuable for business leaders responsible for organizational resilience.
Course Instructor
Mohamed Atef
Dr. Mohamed Atef is a distinguished Cybersecurity Consultant and Certified Instructor with over two decades of experience in orchestrating and overseeing impactful cybersecurity projects. His expertise spans various critical domains, including ISMS implementation, cybersecurity standards and compliance, Security Operation Centers, BCP/DRP, penetration testing, and enterprise technical solutions.
Dr. Atef has authored three books on cybersecurity and created 14 best-selling online courses. He is known for his engaging teaching style, which makes complex concepts accessible to learners of all levels. His certifications include CISSP, CEH, CEI, CISM, CISA, Security+, CCNP, CCSI, MCT, MCSE+ Security, MCITP, PMP, N+, RHCE, and Linux+.
His courses cover a wide range of topics, including preparation for CISSP, CCSP, CISM, ISO 27001, CISA, CRISC, CEH, GISF, and GSEC exams, ethical hacking and penetration testing, Android device hacking, network implementation, and Linux. Dr. Atef’s extensive knowledge and dedication to cybersecurity education make him a trusted and influential figure in the field.
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Testimonials
Josh L.
Before taking this course, I didn’t fully grasp the importance of having a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery strategy in place. Now, I understand how business impact analysis, recovery point objectives, and disaster recovery plans all work together to protect critical business functions and ensure our organization can resume normal operations—even in the face of natural disasters or power outages.
James V.
This was a great beginners level course. However, I would add a file with a list of all the Acronyms used in the Resources downloads.
Monique M.
Wouldn't mind some of the notes, or resources being made available as part of the training.
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