Business Continuity Practitioner (S-BCP) Training Course
The S-BCP certification programme encompasses both the theoretical and practical dimensions of Business Continuity Management (BCM). It is designed to equip aspiring BCM specialists with the expertise necessary to integrate business continuity into their organisations. This certificate validates your comprehensive understanding of BCM theory, your capacity to apply this theory within your specific organisational context, and your improved ability to utilise acquired knowledge to resolve practical business continuity challenges.
Target Audience: This course is ideal for professionals involved in Business Continuity Management or those seeking to enhance their skills in this area, including: Business Continuity Managers/Officers, Facility Managers, and Security Managers. Furthermore, this certificate serves as a significant career milestone for business continuity professionals, representing the second tier of a comprehensive Certified Business Continuity Management Officer (BCMO) certification path.
Earning the Business Continuity Practitioner certificate provides students with a robust foundation to progress to the Business Continuity Management Expert certificate, thereby advancing their careers toward becoming a BCMO. Those who already possess an intermediate level of knowledge in business continuity may choose to begin their training with this course.
Objectives:
The Business Continuity Practitioner certification exam assesses your practical, real-world business continuity management skills.
By passing the BCP certification exam and obtaining a SECO-Business Continuity Practitioner (S-BCP) certificate, you demonstrate your ability to:
- Conduct threat and vulnerability analyses to identify potential risks to your organisation;
- Perform business impact analyses to pinpoint critical business functions, processes, and resources;
- Prioritise threats and identify suitable continuity measures;
- Establish the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your processes;
- Draft and implement a business continuity plan;
- Determine key performance indicators (KPIs) for your business continuity plan;
- Develop and implement an emergency response plan that adheres to 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 draft 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 KPIs for BCM testing.
Course Outline
Module 1: Threats and Vulnerability Analysis (BKA)
- The usefulness, necessity, and purpose of a BKA
- Preparing a BKA and BKA reports
- How does your organisation view threats and vulnerabilities in general?
- The difference between quantitative and qualitative assessments of threats and vulnerabilities
- How threats and vulnerabilities can 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 organisation The role of social media in times of crisis Drawing up a Crisis Stakeholder map
- 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 organisation
- 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 organisation
Requirements
A SECO-Business Continuity Foundation (S-BCF) certificate or equivalent qualification is recommended.
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