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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Certifications     Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)     Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)     Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) 2020

Information security managers must plan for inevitable business disruptions, knowing how best to minimize the impact of these disruptions on business processes and learn from them to prepare for future incidences. In this course, you'll explore techniques to reduce the chances of disruptions, plan for the inevitable, and learn from past occurrences.


You'll start by examining personnel hiring and skills management and how this relates to IT governance. Next, you'll investigate the concept of high availability configurations before delving into data replication, load balancing, and data backups. You'll also practice some associated techniques.


Lastly, you'll learn how to craft disaster recovery and incident response plans, along with post-incident reviews.


This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification.



Objectives

CISM 2020: Business Continuity

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • recognize how personnel background checks, skillsets, and responsibility are important constituents of IT governance
  • define high availability solutions
  • configure a disk mirror in Windows to increase data availability
  • increase cloud data availability by replicating to an alternate region
  • increase app availability using a load balancer
  • determine the appropriate backup type given a scenario
  • back data up to the cloud
  • outline how risk assessments differ from a business impact analysis
  • craft a disaster recovery plan in accordance with the RTO
  • outline how to manage incidents to minimize damage using IRPs
  • outline how to review incident details to increase the efficacy of the IRP (incident response plan)
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course