Alliance — disaster recovery
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On-site training |
As a financial institution, your SWIFT operations department is a critical nerve centre that deserves special attention. To minimise the impact of a technical failure on your business, you should be prepared for any disaster that might arise. This course gives you best practice guidelines for business continuity planning and enables you to manage the disaster recovery processes for your Alliance interfaces. Backup strategy and recovery scenarios are discussed for the entire suite of interfaces.
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Audience
This course has been designed for Alliance Gateway and Alliance Access/Entry administrators, business continuity managers with a technical background, IT implementation teams, etc.
You will learn how to
- Do business continuity planning using best practice guidelines
- Identify the technical details of disaster recovery procedures for SWIFTNet interfaces (e.g., certificate management)
- Apply the principles of SWIFTNet resilience theory to practical case studies for Alliance Gateway, WebStation, Access and Entry
Course content
- Principles of disaster recovery for SWIFTNet applications
- SWIFTNet access, SWIFTNet Link, concentrator and application resilience
- SWIFTNet Link and certificate management
- Case study: recovery for Alliance Gateway
- Active/Standby versus Dual Active configurations
- Recovery procedures
- Case study: recovery for Alliance WebStation
- Case study: recovery for Alliance Web Platform
- Case study: recovery for Alliance Access/Entry
- Synchronisinge your live, local and remote back-up systems
- PKI certificates and security profiles management
- Resuming messaging after failure
- Business continuity planning: best practice guidelines
Prior knowledge
As this is a technical course, a good understanding of system administration is required. You will need knowledge of SWIFTNet PKI, such as delivered in the courses Understanding SWIFTNet services and security or Managing PKI with Browse. You must have experience in managing the Alliance Access/Entry and/or Alliance Gateway interfaces, as taught in the courses Managing Alliance Access, Managing Alliance Entry and Managing Alliance Gateway.
Duration
The course duration depends on the learning channel you choose:
- Classroom course: 1 day
- On-site training: as per your requirements