WHY CONSIDER WEBINAR TRAINING? Get Enrolled In Business Continuity Training

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

You will be equipped to:

• Understand essential knowledge and practical tools
• Create effective, comprehensive, and reliable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for your organization.
• Incorporate current BCP industry' standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Develop Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery Plans which comply with the industry`s best practices and standards such as:

ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management Systems - Requirements

NFPA 1600: Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs

ITIL v4: Information Technology Infrastructure Library

WEBINAR OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this webinar workshop, you will be able to:

• Establish BC Program lifecycle processes within your organization.
• Assess business and technology requirements for a BC Plan.
• Evaluate Business Continuity risks in your organization.
• Identify and select cost-effective BC recovery strategies.
• Organize an effective BC team.
• Design an architecture for BCP documents suited to your organization.
• Develop a BC Plan document.
• Coordinate a BC Plan with external entities.
• Develop an effective test plan for testing the BC Plan.
• Organize and conduct successful BC Plan tests.
• Establish a process for maintaining the BC Plan.
• Implement a BC Plan change management process.
• Avoid typical mistakes that lead to BC Program failures.
• Understand the main differences between a Disaster Recovery Plan, Emergency Response Plan, Crisis Management Plan, and Business Continuity Plan.

WEBINAR OUTLINE

The Webinar is based on industry' best practices and guidelines for the six stages of the BCP process:

1. Risk Management
2. Business Impact Analysis
3. Business Continuity Strategy Development
4. Business Continuity Plan Development
5. Business Continuity Plan Testing
6. Business Continuity Plan Maintenance

WEBINAR REQUIREMENTS

Access to a computer with Internet connectivity.
Recommended: Webcam, speaker, and microphone.

WEBINAR DETAILS

Introduction

Understanding Business Continuity Planning (BCP) concepts.

• Purpose and scope of BCP.
• Importance of Business Continuity Plan (BC Plan).
• Types, sources, and business impacts of disasters and disruptive events.
• Historical evolution of BCP.
• Legal and regulatory requirements.
• Business Continuity best practices, standards, and guidelines.
• Elements of Business Continuity management and Business Continuity planning processes.
• Six stages of the BCP life cycle and the deliverables.

BCP Process Stage 1 - Risk Management

Assess the threats of disaster, existing vulnerabilities, potential disaster impacts, and risk controls options.

• Introduction to risks, threats, exposures, impacts, and risk assessment methods.
• Risk Management Methods: risk assessment, risk control options assessment, risk controls cost-benefit comparisons.

BCP Process Stage 2 - Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Identify mission critical business processes and their recovery requirements. Analyze the impact on business if these processes are interrupted.

• Comparison of BIA and risk assessment.
• BIA responsibilities.
• Elements of a BIA: Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Work Backlog, and Data Loss.
• Method for conducting a BIA.
• BIA deliverables.
• Example BIA report.

BCP Process Stage 3 - Business Continuity Strategy Development

Develop a Business Continuity strategy for timely and cost-effective recovery from potential business disruptions.

• Introduction to Business Continuity Strategies.
• Identification of recovery scope and requirements.
• Identification of available recovery alternatives and options.
• Cost-benefit assessment of available recovery options.
• Recommendations for recovery service contracts.

BCP Process Stage 4 - Business Continuity Plan Development

Develop a document describing the plan for maintaining Business Continuity (BC).

• Objective and scope of a BC Plan document.
• Role of BIA and BC strategy in a BC Plan.
• Roles and responsibilities of BC Plan implementation teams.
• BC Plan implementation phases: initial response and notification, problem assessment, disaster declaration, recovery and resumption, and restoration.
• Tasks and procedures for each BC Plan`s implementation phase.
• Crisis Communication Plan.
• Emergency Response Plan.
• Change control procedures for a BC Plan.

BCP Process Stage 5 - Business Continuity Plan Testing

Validate the Business Continuity Plan.

• Benefits of testing.
• Types of testing methods.
• Importance of a test plan.
• Test plan content.
• Method for developing a test plan.

BCP Process Stage 6 - Business Continuity Plan Maintenance

Maintain the Business Continuity Plan in a constantly ready state for implementation.

• Importance of BC Plan maintenance.
• Components of BC Plan maintenance: change management, periodic testing, regular training, and periodic auditing.
• Deliverables from each component of BC Plan maintenance.
• Recommendations for effective BC Plan change management.

Business Continuity Management

• Detailed overview of Business Continuity Management.
• Relationship between Business Continuity Program phases and plan development.
• Business Continuity and Resilience Program office.
• Business Continuity Program audit methodology.

Business Resilience, Continuity, and Disaster Recovery

• Evolution of Business Continuity to Business Resilience.
• Limitations of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.
• Business Resilience concepts and models.
• Business Resilience Management.
• Business Resilience strategies.
• Enterprise Risk Management.

Other Topics

• Overview of BC Program audit methodology.
• BC standards document review.
• BC program maturity levels.

WEBINAR FEE

The fee for this 2-day comprehensive and practical webinar is US$995.

WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Upcoming 2-day BCRM Webinar Schedule:

• December 9-10, 2019
• January 9-10, 2020
• February 20-21, 2020
• March 23-24, 2020
• April 20-21, 2020
• May 28-29, 2020
• June 22-23, 2020
• July 20-21, 2020
• August 24-25, 2020
• September 28-29, 2020
• October 19-20, 2020
• November 16-17, 2020
• December 21-22, 2020
• January 07-08, 2021
• February 07-08, 2021
• March 22-23, 2021
• April 19-20, 2021
• May 27-28, 2021
• June 28-29, 2021
• July 19-20, 2021
• August 30-31, 2021
• September 27-28, 2021
• October 21-22, 2021
• November 22-23, 2021
• December 20-21, 2021

 WEBINAR TIME ZONE:

(Eastern Standard Time) Day 1 & 2: 10 am - 5 pm (May end earlier than 5 pm)