Business continuity and disaster recovery

Module title:

Business continuity and disaster recovery

Module overview:

The objective of this course is to teaches students how to develop enterprise-wide business continuity and

disaster recovery plans. This module is designed to provide students with the skills needed to understand the methods in identifying vulnerabilities and taking appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure or risks for an organization. This course teaches students how to secure data by putting policies and procedures in place, and how to recover and restore their organization’s critical data in the aftermath of a disaster.

In this module students will learn:

disaster recovery principles

conducting business impact analysis

assessing of risks

preparation of a disaster recovery plan

assessment of risks in the enterprise

development of policies and procedures

understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization

implementation of the plan

disaster recovery for virtualization techniques.

Literature:

Required readings:
1. Snedaker, s., (2013): Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals, Rockland: Synegress.

Supplementary readings:
1. Kim, T., (2012). Computer Applications for Software Engineering, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity. Heidelberg: Springer