Business Continuity Foundation (S-BCF) Training Course
The SECO Institute Business Continuity Foundation certificate is grounded in the ISO/IEC 22301 standard and covers fundamental business continuity concepts. This certification confirms that you have gained a comprehensive understanding of both the theoretical and practical aspects of business continuity.
Target Audience:
- Facility managers
- Security managers
- Information managers
- Service level managers
- Marketing managers
- Supply chain managers
- Team managers
- IT employees
Objectives:
- Developing a Business Continuity Process
- Creating and Implementing a Business Continuity Plan
- Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities
- Testing and Sustaining Business Continuity
Course Outline
Module 1: Developing a Business Continuity Process
- The BCM process and recognizing the steps within the process (inclusion, input, and output)
- BCM as a supporting process within the organization
- Position of the BCM process with other processes in the organization
- Researching the status of the BCM process in an organization and the steps the to improve the process
- Designing a BCM process from an organizational point of view
- Distinguishing between tasks, responsibilities and policy
- The BCM policy and how this is set out in a policy document.
Module 2: Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities
- The consequences if a product or service has not been delivered as agreed
- What the maximum downtime of processes should be
- How take preventive measures and when to use these measures
Module 3: Developing and Implementing a Business Continuity Plan
- The different components of a plan
- The costs and benefits of each plan
- Who is responsible for which plan within the organization
- The structure of a plan
- Organizational resiliency recovery from a threat that has hit the organization
Requirements
Candidates should possess basic knowledge of business continuity.
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