On-Site Business Continuity Planning Training

• Risk Management
• Business Impact Analysis
• Business Continuity Strategy Development
• Business Continuity Plan Development
• Business Continuity Plan Testing
• Business Continuity Plan Maintenance

• ISO 22301: Business Continuity Management Systems – Requirements
• NFPA: Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs
• ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library

• Upon completion 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 to your organization.
• Identify and select cost-effective BC recovery strategies.
• Organize an effective BC team.
• Develop a BC plan document.
• Coordinate the 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 a Business Continuity Plan.

• Purpose and scope of BCP.
• Importance of a 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 process.
• Six stages of the BCP life cycle and the deliverables.

• Assessing the threats of disaster, existing vulnerabilities, potential disaster impact, and risk controls options:
• Introduction to risks, threats, exposures, impacts, and risk assessment methods.
• Risk management method: risk assessment, risk control options assessment, risk controls cost-benefit comparisons.

• Identifying mission-critical business processes and their recovery requirements. Analyzing the impact to the 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 BIA.
• BIA deliverables.
• Example BIA report.

• Developing a Business Continuity strategy for timely and cost-effective recovery from potential business disruptions:
• Introduction to a Business Continuity strategy.
• 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.

• Developing a document describing the plan for maintaining Business Continuity (BC):
• Objective and scope of a BC Plan document.
• Roles of a 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 implementation phase.
• Crisis Communication Plan.
• Emergency Response Plan.
• Change control procedures for a BC Plan.

• Validating 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.

• Maintaining the Business Continuity Plan in a constant-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
• A detailed overview of Business Continuity Management.
• A 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 model.
• Enterprise Risk Management.
• Other Topics
• Overview of BC program audit methodology.
• BC standards document review.
• BC program maturity levels.

Participants will have the opportunity to take the optional Certified Business Resilience Manager Certification examination during the CBRM seminar. The optional CBRM examination is given during the class, and the exam fees are included in the price above.

For up to 10 students, the fee is US$12,995 (Including optional Certification testing and processing) plus $2,500 for instructor travel and accommodation. Each student after the first 10 is charged $400 including the examination fees. BRCCI will supply presentation handbooks, workbooks, take-home Disaster Recovery Plan templates, and other related course information. If you would like a customized training course to fit your company’s needs, please contact us at 1-888-962-7224 or send an email to info@brcci.org.

TESTIMONIALS

“I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on a “job well done” on the Business Resilience Training which you conducted onsite in February, 2006 at North Carolina State University. I found your class well-rounded and quite informative. The non-traditional approach which you took in teaching the methodologies, principles and components of Business Resilience was extremely helpful. The fact that you came onsite to conduct this training helped to solidify the training even more because it afforded BRCCI the opportunity to touch and feel the environment which we as the customer functioned in, but it also gave you the opportunity to perform a high level assessment of our program. Having these onsite training advantages allowed you to tailor the training modules where needed to our environment. Once again, thanks!”
– H. Ann // Assistant Director North Carolina State University RMIS Disaster Recovery and Risk Management

“The course exceeded my expectations. I feel much more confident now about making the decisions that lay in front of me than I did prior to taking the course.”
– CHS III // CEH., CBRM, Director – Information Security, Access Group Inc.

“I’ve worked in Business Continuity nine years and this is the first course I’ve taken that contains a methodology that is clear and concise. The course stepped us through the planning process and incorporated industry standards, regulations and best practices in a context that was comprehensive and easy to understand.”
– B. Carolyn // Schwab Ops BCP

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Our training is provided by a team of highly skilled subject matter experts specializing in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and consulting services. All BRCCI’ instructors have 10-20 years of experience related to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning, management, and audit. These professionals are experienced consultants with industry designations from BRCCI. BCI and ISC2.

For 3 days, classes will begin at 08.30 and end at 16.30. There will be a morning, lunch, and afternoon break.