IT Business Continuity Management (BCM) & Disaster Recovery is a set of processes and resources that helps the business to identify possible threats quantify their potential impact and provide the necessary practices to prevent mitigate and recover from disruptions

It is the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, strategies and programs to assist an entity manage a business disruption event, as well as build entity resilience and hence it determines the capability that assists in preventing, preparing for, responding to, managing and recovering from the impacts of a business disruption event.

Disruption-related risks may be infrequent, but have severe consequences for critical services, and are not able to be resolved by routine management. Disruption-related risks include physical and non-physical events such as natural disasters, pandemics, significant loss of utilities, financial crises, accidents, and incidents that threaten our reputation.

Business continuity management & disaster recovery is a continually evolving subject because of the rapid evolution of and critical dependence on IT, changes in business processes, emergence of new types of risks, and the continued and compelling need for enterprises to reduce the impact of disruptions and recover from interruptions. Business continuity management has progressed to becoming more holistic and focused on the business than on technology.

Why Attend IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Training?

The purpose of the training is to equip ICT Professionals in Business Operations, Risk Management, IT Leadership and those charged with the responsibility of keeping guard on an Enterprise continuity to:

• Increase business continuity risk and security awareness
• Understand how to prepare for a disruption, how to respond and recover from a disruption.
• Enhances stakeholder confidence
• Protect corporate assets and reputation
• Strengthen relationships with emergency response partners
• Ensure services that are critical to the business objectives continue despite the occurrence of a potentially disruptive event
• Stabilize the effects of a disruptive event and return to normal operations and a full recovery as quickly as possible
• Capitalize on opportunities created by the disruptive event

Day 1 – Tuesday

• BCM Programme Framework
• Principles of Effective BCM
• Understanding the Organization & Formulating BC Strategies (Phase 1)
• Performing Business Impact Analysis (BIA)  and Determining Recovery Objectives (RTOs & RPOs) (Phase 2)

Day 2 – Wednesday

• Develop & Implement BCM Response (Phase 3)
• Exercising, Maintenance and Review (Phase 4)
• Embedding BCM in the Organization’s Culture (Phase 5)
• Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Implementation & Execution

Day 3 – Thursday

• BCM Trends, Key Issues, Challenges and Resolution
• Wrap-ups and Assessment