A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. This is how to test it.
It is planned and the outline below is a first draft, so it may yet change. There is no enrolment and no date — when it is ready it will be on this page.
If you need this capability now rather than later, Backup & disaster recovery is the service that covers it, or talk to us.
Whoever is accountable for the organisation recovering, which is frequently not whoever configured the backups.
Practitioner. For people who administer these systems day to day.
No prerequisites. Nothing is assumed beyond using a computer at work.
3 modules, 9 lessons, 1 h 40 m of material. The times are the sum of the lessons rather than a round figure.
How much data you can lose and how long you can be down are business decisions, not storage ones.
Defining both per system, and what each costs to improve.
Data, configuration, identity, and the things that only exist in somebody’s head.
Restoring in an order that works: identity before the applications that authenticate against it.
Ransomware looks for the backups first, and often finds them.
What each resists, and what "immutable" means in each product.
Backup systems that trust the same directory as everything else.
How far back you need to be able to go when the intrusion predates the alert.
The only part that converts a hypothesis into a fact.
Scope, success criteria, and testing the thing you would actually restore.
Finding the decisions nobody has made, cheaply.
Short, current, and available when the systems holding it are not.
Format. Written lessons with a restore-test template to adapt. Delivery mechanism is not built yet.
What to do in the first hour when there is no security team to escalate to.
Course outline ⟶The attacks that pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and the habits that catch them anyway.
Course outline ⟶Getting to an enforced policy without losing legitimate mail on the way.
Course outline ⟶This course exists because the work behind it is work we do. If you need the result rather than the skill, backup & disaster recovery is the service that covers it.