Course Outline
The certification emphasizes a practical approach to Business Continuity Management (BCM), leveraging current standards to enable candidates to apply their knowledge immediately upon returning to their organizations.
1. Introduction to Business Continuity Management
- The necessity of Business Continuity Management for government and private sector operations
- The role of BCM in organizational resilience
- The importance of leadership and senior management commitment to BCM
- A review of fundamental risk management principles
2. Business Continuity Policy and Programme Management
- Development of a BCM policy and program, including objectives and scope
- Ensuring supply chain continuity for government and organizational resilience
- Documentation requirements:
- An approved BCM policy for government operations
- Terms of reference for the BCM program
- Business impact analysis
- Risk assessments
- BCM strategies
- A BCM training and awareness program for government employees
- Incident management, BCM, disaster recovery, and business resumption plans
- A testing and exercise schedule for BCM plans
- Service level agreements and contracts for BCM
- Secure off-site or dual-site storage of critical information and materials
3. Understanding the Organisation (Analysis)
This section outlines how a BCM manager can gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization and initiate an effective BCM program.
- Identification of business-critical areas for government operations
- Terminology:
- Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) or 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 for government and organizational preparedness
- Continuity requirements analysis
- Threat and vulnerability assessments for government operations
- Horizon scanning for emerging risks
- Risk assessment methodologies
- Evaluation of strategic options
- Business cases and program sign-off procedures
4. Determining the Business Continuity Strategy (Design)
- Strategic options for BCM, including:
- Personnel management
- Premises and facilities
- Processes and procedures
- Technology solutions
- Information security
- Supply chain resilience
- Stakeholder engagement
- Civil emergency preparedness
5. Business Continuity Response (Implementation)
- Overall incident response structure for government and organizational incidents
- Types of BCM plans:
- Incident management plans
- Business continuity plans
- Disaster recovery plans
- Business resumption plans
6. Exercising, Maintenance and Review (Validation)
- Exercising and testing of BCM plans for government and organizational readiness
- Maintenance of BCM plans to ensure current relevance
- Regular review of BCM plans to incorporate lessons learned
7. Embedding Business Continuity Awareness in the Organisation
- Overall awareness of BCM principles for government and organizational staff
- Skill training for effective BCM implementation
NobleProg is an accredited BCS Training Provider.
This course will be delivered by a certified NobleProg trainer approved by BCS.
The price includes comprehensive delivery of the full 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). Participants who successfully pass the exam (a multiple-choice test requiring a score of at least 65% to pass) will earn the accredited BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Continuity Management (CBCM).
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Testimonials (2)
Questions, that helps me a lot to understand the characteristics of CRISC examination.
Masakazu Yoshijima - Bank of Yokohama, Ltd.
Course - CRISC - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
I liked the in-depth knowledge about the subject of the trainer, good explanation, highlighting important things!.