National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

Presents methods to identify vulnerabilities and take appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for an organization. It will take an enterprise-wide approach to developing a disaster recovery plan.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand key functions of the disaster plan & have the ability to Implement disaster recovery procedures.
  2. Know information security, basic concepts of risk management & how to conduct risk assessments/implement risk mitigation.
  3. Identify & define the components of contingency planning.
  4. Know concerns/trade-offs to be managed when assembling the final IR plan, understand elements of an incident recovery response, & be aware of the impact of selecting a reaction strategy, developing a notification mechanism,& the creation of escalation guidelines.
  5. Know relationships between the overall use of contingency planning & the subordinate elements of incident response, business resumption, disaster recovery,& business continuity planning.
  6. Recognize critical elements compose the response phase of the DR plan.
  7. Know methodology used to construct the business continuity policy & plan, be able to participate in such a planning process when required.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.