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Business Continuity Planning and Recovery
In this course, students explore tools and strategies for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) activities. Topics include business impact assessment methods, recovery strategy approaches and solutions and continuity planning.
Provider Information
University of Fairfax
1813 East Main Street
Salem, VA 24153
Course Overview
Baccalaureate
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, the student will be able:
- Describe the role of information security policy in the development of contingency plans
- Discuss why an individual or group needs to be appointed to create a contingency plan
- Describe the techniques used for data and application backup and recovery
- List the skills and components required to devise an incident response plan
- Describe the need for providing wide access to the planning documents while securing the sensitive content of the disaster recovery plans
- Describe the methodology used to construct the business continuity policy and plan
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
Specialty Areas
- Risk Management
- Test and Evaluation
- Cyber Operational Planning
- Program/Project Management and Acquisition
- Strategic Planning and Policy
Feedback
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