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CDRP - Certified Data Centre Risk Professional is a two-day instructor-led course that exposes attendants to the overall risk management process. Focus is on both the data centre infrastructure and the physical data centre facility and equipment; the attendant will learn how to identify and quantify risk in their organization, creating the ability to reduce the risk to a level acceptable for the organization. The course is based on international standards (ISO/IEC27001:2005) and guidelines (ISO/IEC27005:2011, NIST800-30, ISO/IEC31000) and will additionally prepare the candidate being able to take part and assist in corporate certification processes that may apply.
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After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- Understand the different standards and methodologies for risk management and assessment
- Establish the required project team for risk management
- Perform the risk assessment, identifying current threats, vulnerabilities and the potential impact based on customised threat catalogues
- Report on the current risk level of the data centre both quantitative and qualitative
- Anticipate and minimise potential financial impacts
- Understand the options for handling risk
- Continuously monitor and review the status of risk present in the data centre
- Reduce the frequency and magnitude of incidents
- Detect and respond to events when they occur
- Meet regulatory and compliance requirements
- Support certification processes such as ISO/IEC 27001
- Support overall corporate and IT governance
Introduction to Risk Management
- Risk management concepts
- Senior management and risk
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Benefi ts of risk management
Data Centre Risk and Impact
- Risk in facility, power, cooling, re-suppression, infrastructure and IT services
- Impact of data centre downtime
- Main causes of downtime
- Cost factors in downtime
Standards, Guidelines and Methodologies
- ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27005:2011, ISO/IEC 27002:2013
- NIST SP 800-30
- ISO/IEC 31000:2009
- SS507:2008
- ANSI/TIA-942
- Other methodologies (CRAMM, EBIOS, OCTAVE, etc.)
Risk Management De finitions
- Asset
- Availability/Confi dentiality/Integrity
- Control
- Information processing facility
- Information security
- Policy Risk
- Risk analysis/Risk assessment/Risk evaluation/Risk treatment
- Threat/Vulnerability
- Types of risk
Risk Assessment Software
- The need for software
- Automation
- Considerations
Risk Management Process
- The risk management process
- Establishing the context
- Identi fication
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Communication and consultation
- Monitoring and review
Project Approach
- Project management principles
- Project management methods
- Scope
- Time
- Cost
- Cost estimate methods
Context Establishment
- General considerations
- Risk evaluation, impact and acceptance criteria
- Severity rating of impact
- Occurrence rating of probability
- Scope and boundaries
- Scope constraints
- Roles & responsibilities
- Training, awareness and competence
Risk Assessment - Identification
- The risk assessment process
- Identi fication of assets
- Identi fication of threats
- Identi fication of existing controls
- Identi fication of vulnerabilities
- Identi fication of consequences
- Hands-on exercise: Identification of assets, threats, existing controls, vulnerabilities and consequences
Risk Assessment - Analysis and Evaluation
- Risk estimation
- Risk estimation methodologies
- Assessment of consequences
- Assessment of the incident likelihood
- Level of risk estimation
- Risk evaluation
- Hands-on exercise: Assessment of consequences, probability and estimating the level of risk
Risk Treatment
- The risk treatment process steps
- Risk Treatment Plan (RTP)
- Risk modi cation Risk retention
- Risk avoidance
- Risk sharing
- Constraints in risk modi cation
- Control categories
- Control examples
- Cost-benefi t analysis
- Control implementation
- Residual risk
Communication
- Effective communication of risk management activities
- Benefi ts and concerns of communication
Risk Monitoring and Review
- Ongoing monitoring and review
- Criteria for review
Risk scenarios
- Risk assessment approach
- Data centre site selection
- Data centre facility
- Cloud computing
- UPS scenarios
- Force majeure
- Organisational shortcomings
- Human failure
- Technical failure
- Deliberate acts
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The primary audience for this course is an IT, Facilities or Data Centre Operations professional working in and around the data centre (representing both end-customers and/or service provider/facilitators) and having the responsibility to achieve and improve hi-availability and manageability of the Data Centre, such as:
- Data centre managers
- Operations/Floor/Facility managers
- IT managers
- Information security managers
- Security professionals
- Auditors
- Risk Managers
- Professionals who are responsible for IT/corporate governance
There is no specific prerequisite for the CDRP course. However, participants who have at least three years’ experience in a data centre and/or IT infrastructures will be best suited. This experience may come from a business or IT background where the participant has knowledge of both environments and understands the mission of their organisation. Attendance of CDCP is beneficial but not a requirement.
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