About This Course
– Review the body of knowledge contained in Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, designed to assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of business continuity programs (BCM Program).
– Highlight the terms and methodologies presented in the International Glossary for Resilience and Professional Practices.
– Prepare the candidate for the qualification exam.
– Learn and deepen the Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, designed to assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of business continuity programs. – Put into practice the terms and methodologies presented in the International Glossary for Resilience and Professional Practices. – Prepare for and take the Disaster Recovery Institute ABCP or CBCP certification exam.
Course Information
What You Will Learn
Course Curriculum
- Establish the need for a business continuity program.
- Obtain support and resources for the business continuity program.
- Build the organizational framework to support the business continuity program.
- Introduce key concepts, such as program management, risk awareness, identification of critical functions/processes, recovery strategies, training and awareness, and exercise/testing.
- Class Exercise
- Identify risks that may negatively impact an organization's resources or image.
- Assess risks to determine potential impacts to the organizational entity, allowing the entity to determine the most effective use of resources to reduce these potential impacts.
- Class Exercise
- Identify and prioritize the entity's functions and processes to determine which will be most impacted if those processes are unavailable in the event of an incident.
- Assess the resources required to conduct the BIA.
- Analyze the results to determine any gaps between the organization's requirements and its ability to meet those requirements.
- Class Exercise
- Select cost-effective strategies to mitigate deficiencies identified during the risk assessment and BIA .
- Class Exercise
- Develop and assist in establishing an incident management system that defines organizational roles, responsibilities, and succession of authority.
- Define the requirements for developing and implementing the organizational entity's incident response plan. Ensure that incident response is coordinated with external organizations in a timely and effective manner, when appropriate.
- Class Exercise
- Document the plans that must be used during an incident to allow the organizational entity to continue operating.
- Class Exercise
- Establish and maintain training and awareness programs that enable personnel to respond to incidents calmly and efficiently.
- Class Exercise
- Establish an operation, evaluation, and maintenance program to maintain a state of readiness.
- Class Exercise
- Provide a framework for developing a crisis communications plan.
- Ensure that the crisis communications plan provides timely and effective communication both internally and externally.
- Class Exercise
- Establish policies and procedures for coordinating incident response activities with government agencies.
- Review key concepts from each of the previous lessons.
- Prepare for the qualification exam by practicing the exam questions.
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