Course Description:

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a relatively new term. It is an on-going process with several different but complementary elements including disaster recovery, business recovery, business resumption, and contingency planning.

This 5-day course covers the necessary techniques and tools needed to identify preventative treatments for continuity, and developing an organization- wide business continuity plan.

Course Goal:

To enhance the participants’ Knowledge, Abilities and Skills necessary to identify preventative treatments for continuity risks, and developing an organization- wide business continuity plan to deal with the consequences should the preventative treatments fail.

Course Objective:

By the end of this Course the participant will be able to:

1. Explain continuity and risk concepts
2. Definition of Business continuity management
3. Demonstrate an overview of the risk management process

Course Outline:

1. Definition of Business continuity management
2. Risk management
3. The business continuity process
4. Overview of the business continuity process
5.  Disaster recovery planning: Insuring Business Continuity
6. Emergency management concepts
7. Four phases of emergency management
8. Step-by-step project plan
9. Current capabilities…where do you stand now
10. Emergency Response Teams (ERTs)
11. Creating awareness and providing training for all employees
12. Maintaining and testing emergency supplies and equipment
13.  Reducing risk
14. Loss-acceptance criteria
15. Technology issues
16. Security issues
17. The business recovery team and activating the business recovery plan
18. When to return to “normal” operations
19. Business Recovery Center (BRC)
20. Ongoing program of training and exercise
21. Support and assistance for business recovery managers
22. Use of outside experts

Who Can Benefit

Top management, risk managers, controllers, auditors, MIS managers, safety and security people