Business Continuity Management
 
 
 
Description
Business continuity management (BCM) is a holistic approach to risk management that comprises of different procedures and methodology aimed at dealing with long term outages and disasters. This course covers Business continuity planning and management techniques long with detailed understanding of all the topics essential ingredients.
 
Course Objectives
Upon completing course, the participants will be able to understand:

• the different elements that comprise a business continuity plan
• Business continuity planning (plan development, plan implementation, resumption strategies etc.)
• business impact analysis process
• The different emergency plans and their relative position in the Business continuity plan.

 
Topics

• Business continuity planning.
• project scoping and planning
• business impact assessments
• recovery strategies
• recovery plan development
• emergency response
• personnel notification
• backups and off-site storage
• software escrow agreement
• external communications
• logistics and supplies
• fire and water protection
• documentation
• implementation
• recovery techniques
• containment strategy
• training/testing/maintenance
• disaster recovery
• recovery plan development
• reconstruction from backup
• crisis management
• restoration to primary site

Target Audience
Executives, CIO, CISO, CSO
 
Prerequisites
None
 
Duration
2-3 Days
 
Outline

• Business Continuity Management
  • Corporate Continuity
  • Corporate Crisis Management
  • Corporate Systems
  • Corporate Facilities
  • Corporate People
• Disaster Recovery
  • Information Technology (IT)
    • Identification of risks
    • Identification of critical IT
    • Recovery
    • Providers
    • Network resilience
    • IT resilience
    • Data
    • Security
    • Site
    • Alternate site
    • Review, audit and changes
    • Testing
  • Telephony
    • Recovery
    • Site
    • Testing
• Incident Response
  • Selecting team members
  • Define roles, responsibilities and lines of authority
  • Define a security incident
  • Define a reportable incident
  • Training
  • Detection
  • Classification
  • Escalation
  • Containment
  • Eradication
  • Documentation