This course naturally follows attendance of Stage 1 - Establishing a Business Continuity Management System.

Developing and Implementing a BCM Response

• Developing, coordinating, evaluating and creating plans and procedures to communicate with internal stakeholders during incidents.
• The provision of post-incident support and guidance for employees and their families.
  Developing and implementing emergency response procedures for responding to and stabilizing the situation following an incident or event.
• Establishing and managing an Emergency Operations Centre to be used as a command centre during the emergency.
  Practical experience in handling incidents/emergencies.
• Develop Incident response procedures to fulfill BCM objectives.
• Designing, developing and implementing business continuity and incident management plans that provide continuity within recovery time and/or recovery point objectives.

Exercising, Maintenance and Review

• Pre-planning and coordinating plan walk-throughs/exercises.
• Evaluating, updating, improving and documenting the results of exercises.
• Developing processes to maintain the currency of continuity capabilities, business continuity and incident management plans in accordance with the organization's strategic direction.
• Establishing appropriate policies and procedures for coordinating incidents, continuity and restoration activities with external agencies whilst ensuring compliance with applicable statutes and/or regulations.
  Practical experience in dealing with external agencies.

Embedding Business Continuity Management within the Organization's Culture

• Preparing a program to create and maintain corporate awareness and enhance the skills required to develop and implement the business continuity management program or process and its supporting activities.

Certifying Your Organization's Business Continuity Management System to BS25999-2

• The certification process
• Preparing for the certification audit
• Case Studies 

• Decisions on how your organization will choose to accept risk, or invest to mitigate risk will ultimately be decided by the very people who are ultimately accountable for how well the organization runs - in good times and in bad.
• Therefore, senior management is required to at least lead BCM risk and strategy, which are covered in Establishing a Business Continuity Management System.
• Other employees, who will go on plan and deploy BCM controls will continue on to attend Using BS 25999 Best Practices to Develop, Exercise, and Certify Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Processes.
• Learn more about how you can train your entire BCM team at half of the cost of regular public pricing.

Duration:

CPE Credit:

Venues:

• Public
• Private Site-Engagement (Why?)

Prerequisites:

• Required: Establishing a Business Continuity System
• Recommended: Prior business experience.

Certication Mapping:

• Certified Internal Controls Risk Analyst
• Certified Business Contintuity Strategist
• Certfiied Business Continuity Administrator
• Certified Business Continuity Manager

As president and Chief Executive Officer of Certified Tech Trainers, d.b.a.Certified Information Security, Allen Keele, has over 25 professional and technical accreditations. Mr. Keele has over 17 years of experience in information security and risk management, including seven years of conducting professional advanced IT lectures and seminars across the United States, the United Kingdom, Asia, and the Caribbean. His lectures have attracted students from leading organizations including the United States Marine Corp, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Lloyds, Thomson Financial, Microsoft Corporation, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Boston University, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Fujitsu, and many others.

Mr. Keele has spoken many times on behalf of the Institute for Internal Auditors (IIA) and for the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Mr. Keele was also a featured speaker for ISACA at its North American conference, CACS. Considered an expert in several diverse technologies, Mr. Keele currently has held over 25 professional and technical accreditations, and has authored 5 books.