Course Outline

• Resilience
  • How does Business Continuity provide value to an organization?
  • Definition and ingredients of organizational resilience
• UAE NCEMA 7000-2012
• Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013
• ISO 22301-2012 Societal Security; Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) requirements
• BCM Program, Policy, Strategy and Tools
  • Implementing a BCM program, and its leadership
  • The BC Policy requirements
  • The BC strategy – how and depth?
  • Contingency and standby
  • Understanding stakeholders
  • Legislations, regulations and standards

• Embedding Business Continuity
  • Training needs analysis, skills and competency framework
  • Why do we need a Competency Framework?
  • Developing a Competency Framework
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
  • Types of BIA
    • strategic
    • tactical
    • operational
  • Implementation methods for BIA and Risk Assessment (RA)
• Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
  • Ownership and plan structure
  • Roles and responsibilities of BC Champion and Team Leaders
• Delivering a Business Continuity Exercise
  • Types of testing/exercising
  • Key components for delivery of an auditable exercise
• Maintenance of the BCMS
  • What is the function of an audit?
  • BCM Steering Committee and Terms of Reference (ToR’s)
  • Overriding management review and continuous improvement