Business Continuity Practitioner
- Course Code S-BCP
- Duration 5 days
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Course Overview
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TopTarget Audience
TopThis course is aimed at those who will be involved in Business Continuity Management or need to improve business continuity-related skills, such as:
- Business continuity managers/ officers
- Facility managers
- Security managers
Finally, this certificate is intended to be an important career milestone for business continuity professionals, as it constitutes the second level of a complete and extensive Certified Business Continuity Management Officer certification track. Achieving the Business Continuity Practitioner certificate provides students with a solid knowledge to be able to continue with the Business Continuity Management Expert certificate, and advance their career to become a BCMO. Students who already possess intermediate-level business continuity knowledge can decide to start their training with the Expert level of the certification track.
Course Objectives
TopThe Business Continuity Practitioner certification exam tests your real-world business continuity management skills.
By passing the BCP certification exam and earning a SECO-Business Continuity Practitioner (S-BCP) certificate, you demonstrate your ability to
- Perform threat and vulnerability analyses to identify threats to your organisation;
- Perform business impact analyses to identify critical business functions, processes and resources;
- Prioritise threats and identify appropriate continuity measures;
- Establish maximum tolerable downtime (MTPD) and recovery time objective (RTO) for your processes;
- Draft and implement a business continuity plan;
- Determine key performance indicators for your business continuity plan;
- Draw up and implement an emergency response plan in line with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements;
- Understand the fundamental principles of crisis management planning and internal and external crisis communications;
- Identify roles, responsibilities, competencies and key performance indicators for the internal crisis organisation;
- Identify recovery activities and priorities, and draw up a continuity of operations plan to ensure the availability of critical personnel and resources;
Identify business continuity training and exercise needs, draft and plan BCM exercises, and determine key performance indicators for BCM testing.
Course Content
Top- The usefulness, necessity and purpose of a BKA
- Preparing a BKA and BKA reports
- How does your organization view threats and vulnerabilities in general?
- The difference between a quantitative and qualitative assessment of threats and vulnerabilities
- How can threats and vulnerabilities be made manageable?
Module 2: Business impact analysis (BIA)
- The usefulness, necessity and purpose of a BIA
- Existing methods for performing a BIA and drawing up a subsequent damage assessment
- Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- The types of consequential damage and determining a consequential damage picture
- Which disciplines are required for the implementation of a BIA?
- Preparing BIA reports
Module 3: Introduction to Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- What is Crisis Management?
- The characteristics of a crisis
- The difference between an incident and a crisis
- What is the use and necessity of crisis communication?
- The difference between image and reputation
- Drawing up a crisis management plan
- The composition of the crisis organization
- The role of social media in times of crisis
- Drawing up a Crisis Stakeholdermap
- The role of BHV in crisis management
Module 4: Emergency Response Plan (ER)
- From company self-protection to company emergency response (BHV)
- History and exploration of first aid for incidents
- What requirements are set for the emergency response team?
- Setting up an emergency response organization
- Emergency Response from the Government
Module 5: Crisis Management Plan (CMP)Module 6: Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
- What is a COOP and what is it for?
- The student can name the plans within the COOP
- The formulation and basic requirements of a recovery plan
- The different types of recovery strategies and associated quality features
- The importance of backup and recovery of digital and non-digital data; the need for external storage
- The translation of a process into underlying information systems and the implementation of remedial measures
- The importance and composition of a recovery organization
Course Prerequisites
TopSECO-Business Continuity Foundation (S-BCF) certificate or equivalent is recommended.
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