Course: ECU 513 Disaster Recovery

Purpose of Class:

This course is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to understand the methods in identifying vulnerabilities and taking appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure or risks for an organization. It also provides the networking professional with a foundation in disaster recovery principles, including preparation of a disaster recovery plan, assessment of risks in the enterprise, development of policies, procedures, understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization, implementation of the plan, disaster recovery and virtualization techniques. This course takes an enterprise-wide approach to develop a disaster recovery plan. Students will learn how to create a secure network by putting policies and procedures in place, and how to restore a network in the event of a disaster. Students are also exposed to various virtualization tools and techniques that form an important part while charting the disaster recovery solution.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

• Understand the various types of disasters, analyze its consequences and effects on organization
• Evaluate the need for disaster recovery and identify the phases involved in the process of recovery
• Prepare and implement business continuity plan to ensure the protection of organizational assets and business operations
• Assess business risks, frame risk management policies, identify risk management team,  and implement solutions to mitigate risks and protect business networks in the event of a disaster
• Analyze the issues related to information system security; examine the security mechanism for data backup, role of certification and accreditation authority in securing information systems;  and identify the technology or services required to recover the data
• Understand laws and acts related to disaster recovery that are applicable in various countries and analyze their impact.
• Assess ethical and legal requirements while undertaking disaster recovery and business continuity services
• Understand various virtualization platforms, assess their roles in disaster recovery, and implement these platforms for optimized resource utilization and availability.

Required Reading:

• EC-Council Cengage Press Book on Disaster Recovery and Virtualization

 Additional Reading:

The required reading in this course will be from the following sources:

• Active Defense: A Comprehensive Guide to Network Security by Chris Brenton and Cameron Hunt, published by Sybex ISBN: 9780782129168
• The Secure Online Business Handbook: E-Commerce, IT Functionality & Business Continuity, Second Edition by Chris Ollington (ed), published by Kogan Page ISBN: 9780749442217
• Incident Response: Computer Forensics Toolkit by Douglas Schweitzer, published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780764526367
• Disaster Recovery Planning by Roopendra Jeet Sandhu, published by Premier Press ISBN: 9781931841986
• Information Security Illuminated by Michael G. Solomon and Mike Chapple, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ISBN:9780763726775
• Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools by Christian B. Lahti and Roderick Peterson, Syngress Publishing ISBN: 9781597490368
• Principles of Network Security by Check Point Software Technologies, Check Point Software Technologies

Week One:

Modules Covered:

• Module 01: Nature and Causes of Disaster
• Module 02: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Module 03: Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation
• Module 04: Business Continuity Planning & Management
• Module 05: Contingency Planning for Information Technology Systems

Outcome:

• Understand the various types of disasters, analyze its consequences and effects on organization
• Evaluate the need for disaster recovery and identify the phases involved in the process of recovery
• Prepare and implement business continuity plan to ensure the protection of organizational assets and business operations

Week Two:

Modules Covered:
Module 06: Risk Management
Module 07: Risk Assessment
Module 08: Risk Evaluation Responsibilities
Module 09: Risk Control Policies and Procedures
Module 10: Risk Countermeasures and their Effects

Outcomes:

• Understand the various types of disasters, analyze its consequences and effects on organization
• Evaluate the need for disaster recovery and identify the phases involved in the process of recovery
• Prepare and implement business continuity plan to ensure the protection of organizational assets and business operations
• Assess business risks, frame risk management policies, identify risk management team,  and implement solutions to mitigate risks and protect business networks in the event of a disaster 

Week Three:

Modules Covered:
Module 11: Information System Security Issues
Module 12:  Network Attached Storage
Module 13: Storage Area Networks
Module 14: Access Controls & Administrative Measures
Module 15: Data Backup and Recovery
Module 16: Implementing Offsite Backup
Module 17: Disaster Recovery Services
Module 18: Enterprise Backup and Business Continuity Tools

Outcomes:

• Assess business risks, frame risk management policies, identify risk management team,  and implement solutions to mitigate risks and protect business networks in the event of a disaster
• Analyze the issues related to information system security; examine the security mechanism for data backup, role of certification and accreditation authority in securing information systems;  and identify the technology or services required to recover the data
• Understand laws and acts related to disaster recovery that are applicable in various countries and analyze their impact.
• Assess ethical and legal requirements while undertaking disaster recovery and business continuity services

Week Four:

Modules Covered:

• Module 19: Laws and Acts
• Module 20: DR Practices and Legal Compliance Issues
• Module 21: DR Templates and Checklists
• Module 22: Certification and Accreditation of IS
• Module 23: Introduction to Virtualization
• Module 24: Virtualization for Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Outcomes:

• Analyze the issues related to information system security; examine the security mechanism for data backup, role of certification and accreditation authority in securing information systems;  and identify the technology or services required to recover the data
• Understand laws and acts related to disaster recovery that are applicable in various countries and analyze their impact.
• Understand various virtualization platforms, assess their roles in disaster recovery, and implement these platforms for optimized resource utilization and availability.

Week Five:

Modules Covered:

• Module 25: VMware ESXi on Linux
• Module 26: VMware Virtual Appliances
• Module 27: Microsoft Virtualization
• Module 28: Citrix Xen Virtualization
• Module 29: Sun Virtualization
• Module 30: HP Virtualization
• Module 31: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AEC2)

Outcomes:

• Understand various virtualization platforms, assess their roles in disaster recovery, and implement these platforms for optimized resource utilization and availability.

Week Six:

Modules Covered:

• Module 32: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization
• Module 33: NoMachine
• Module 34: NComputing
• Module 35: Parallels
• Module 36: MokaFive
• Module 37: Virtualization Security

Outcomes:

• Understand various virtualization platforms, assess their roles in disaster recovery, and implement these platforms for optimized resource utilization and availability.

Weeks Seven and Eight: Summative Experiences

Introduction to Weeks: Weeks seven and eight are designed to provide cumulative experience while
faculty and students are given the opportunity to finalize uncompleted work. For this course,
students will engage in two summative assessments, a research paper and final examination.