Certified Data Centre Risk Professional (CDRP)

Overview
The CDRP® is a 2-day course is designed to expose 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.

Course Benefits

• 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

Prerequisites
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.

Course Outline

• Introduction to Risk Management
• Data Centre Risk and Impact
• Standards, Guidelines and Methodologies
• Risk Management Definitions
• Risk Assessment Software
• Risk Management Process
• Project Approach
• Context Establishment
• Risk Assessment – Identification
• Risk Assessment – Analysis and Evaluation
• Risk Treatment
• Communication
• Risk Monitoring and Review
• Risk scenarios