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Course Outline

This certification adopts a practical approach to Business Continuity Management, utilising current standards to enable candidates to immediately apply their learning upon returning to their organisations.

1. Introduction to Business Continuity Management

  • The need for Business Continuity Management
  • The role of Business Continuity Management in the business context
  • Leadership and senior management commitment to Business Continuity
  • Review of fundamental risk management principles

2. Business Continuity Policy and Programme Management

  • Business Continuity policy and programme (objectives and scope)
  • Supply Chain Continuity
  • Documentation
    • An agreed Business Continuity Management policy
    • Terms of reference for the Business Continuity Management programme
    • Business impact analysis and risk assessments
    • Business Continuity strategies
    • A Business Continuity training and awareness programme
    • Incident management, Business Continuity, disaster recovery, and business resumption plans
    • A Business Continuity testing and exercise schedule
    • Business Continuity service level agreements and contracts
    • Secure off-site or dual-site storage of critical information and materials

3. Understanding the Organisation (Analysis)

This section outlines how a Business Continuity manager gains an understanding of the organisation and initiates the overall Business Continuity Management programme.

  • Identification of Business-Critical Areas
  • Terminology
    • Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD), also known as Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO)
    • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
    • Maximum Tolerable Data Loss (MTDL)
    • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
    • Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO)
  • Business Impact Analysis
  • Continuity Requirements Analysis
  • Threat and Vulnerability Assessments
  • Horizon Scanning
  • Risk Assessment
  • Evaluation of Options
  • Business Cases and Programme Sign-Off

4. Determining the Business Continuity Strategy (Design)

  • Strategic Options - people, premises, processes and procedures, technology, information, supply chain, stakeholders, civil emergencies

5. Business Continuity Response (Implementation)

  • Overall Incident Response Structure
  • Types of Plan
  • Incident Management Plans
  • Business Continuity Plans
  • Disaster Recovery Plans
  • Business Resumption Plans

6. Exercising, Maintenance and Review (Validation)

  • Exercising and Testing of Plans
  • Maintenance of Plans
  • Review of Plans

7. Embedding Business Continuity Awareness in the Organisation

  • Overall Awareness
  • Skills Training

NobleProg is a BCS Accredited Training Provider.

This course will be delivered by an expert NobleProg trainer approved by BCS.

The price includes full delivery of the course syllabus by an approved BCS trainer and the BCS CBCM exam (which can be taken remotely at your convenience and is centrally invigilated by BCS). Upon successfully passing the exam (multiple-choice format, requiring a minimum score of 65%), participants will receive the accredited BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Continuity Management (CBCM).

Requirements

There are no formal entry requirements; however, candidates should have a basic understanding of information assurance.

 21 Hours

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