IT Disaster Recovery Planning and Operational Resilience – London, 11–15 Jan 2027
DestinationLondon
Dates11 – 15 January 2027
Reference1286_7938
This session
11–15 Jan 2027
This IT Disaster Recovery Planning and Operational Resilience session in London runs from Monday 11 January to Friday 15 January 2027 (week 2, Q1 2027). It is the 1st of 2 dates in London in 2027, at a fee of 23,000 SAR, the same for each of them. Registration is open for this date. It is held in person at Central London four-star.
Ransomware, cloud outages and data centre failures now halt entire business services, and many IT recovery plans rely on backups that cannot be restored, sequences never rehearsed and providers never assessed. Boards and auditors increasingly ask whether important services can stay within tolerable disruption, not whether a recovery document exists. This Core Concept course equips IT and resilience managers to design, document and test recovery capability against international standards. Participants rehearse recovery decisions in time-pressured simulations and leave with an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Resilience Test Schedule for a critical service.
Course Objectives
Identify important business services and map the technology, data and third-party dependencies behind them
Apply ISO/IEC 27031 and NIST SP 800-34 to structure an ICT readiness and contingency programme
Select recovery architectures and backup strategies that meet agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives
Write executable recovery runbooks, roles and declaration criteria, including for cyber attacks
Plan and evaluate recovery tests, provider resilience reviews and post-incident remediation
Produce an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Resilience Test Schedule for a critical service
Target Audience
IT infrastructure and operations managers accountable for platform availability
Disaster recovery and IT service continuity managers
Information security managers responsible for incident recovery and backup assurance
Cloud and data centre managers overseeing hosting and failover arrangements
IT risk and operational resilience managers reporting on recovery capability
Application and service owners accountable for critical business systems
Course Outline
Day 1: IT Recovery and Operational Resilience Foundations
Important Business Services and Impact Tolerance Concepts
BCBS Principles for Operational Resilience Overview
IT Service Dependency Mapping: Applications, Infrastructure, Data and Third Parties
Disruption Scenario Catalogue: Ransomware, Site Loss, Cloud Region Outage and Supplier Failure
Recovery Capability Baseline Assessment Checklist
Day 2: Standards and Recovery Architecture
ISO/IEC 27031:2025 ICT Readiness for Business Continuity
NIST SP 800-34 Contingency Planning Process
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Controls 5.30, 8.13 and 8.14 for ICT Continuity, Backup and Redundancy
ITIL 4 Service Continuity Management Practice
Recovery Architecture Patterns: Backup and Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby and Active-Active
Day 3: Building the Recovery Capability
Recovery Objective Alignment: RTO, RPO and Recovery Sequence by Service
Backup Strategy Design with the 3-2-1-1-0 Rule and Immutable Copies
Runbook Writing for Failover, Failback and Data Restoration
Recovery Roles, Call Trees and Disaster Declaration Criteria
Cyber Recovery Planning with the NIST CSF 2.0 Recover Function and SP 800-184
Day 4: Testing, Provider Risk and Optimisation
Recovery Test Types: Walkthrough, Component Restore, Parallel and Full Interruption
Chaos Engineering and Controlled Failure Injection
Cloud and Outsourced Provider Resilience Due Diligence and Exit Plans
Recovery Metrics: Test Success Rate, Achieved Recovery Time and Measured Data Loss
Post-Incident Review and Remediation Tracking Log
Day 5: Simulation and the IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Site Loss Simulation: Failover Sequencing Under Time Pressure
Simulation Debrief Against Impact Tolerances
IT Disaster Recovery Plan Drafting for an Own Critical Service
Resilience Test Schedule Build and Peer Review
Skills You Will Gain
Service Dependency Mapping
Recovery Architecture Selection
Backup Strategy Design
Recovery Runbook Development
Cyber Recovery Planning
Recovery Test Management
Provider Resilience Assessment
Impact Tolerance Setting
Why Attend This Course
Return with an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Resilience Test Schedule for a critical service, reviewed by peers
Experience recovery decisions under time pressure before facing them in a real outage
Give business owners, auditors and boards evidence that recovery objectives can actually be met
Learn from infrastructure and security managers in banking, telecoms, government and industry
Conclusion
Recovery capability is proved only by restoring services within agreed limits. This course moves from important business services and dependency mapping, through ICT readiness standards and recovery architectures, to runbooks, backup design, cyber recovery, testing and provider resilience. The final day places participants in ransomware and site loss simulations and turns the lessons into an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Resilience Test Schedule, giving them a tested basis for showing that critical services can be recovered when it matters.
IT Disaster Recovery Planning and Operational Resilience runs in London over 5 days, with 2 upcoming dates in London. The course fee is 23,000 SAR.
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