Business Continuity Practitioner (S-BCP) Training Course
The S-BCP certification program encompasses the theoretical and practical dimensions of Business Continuity Management that aspiring BCM specialists must master to effectively embed continuity practices within their organizations. This certificate validates your comprehensive understanding of Business Continuity Management theory, your ability to apply this knowledge to your specific organizational context, and your enhanced capacity to solve practical business continuity challenges.
Target Audience: This course is designed for individuals involved in Business Continuity Management or those seeking to enhance their business continuity skills, 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 level in a comprehensive Certified Business Continuity Management Officer (BCMO) certification track.
Earning the Business Continuity Practitioner certificate equips students with the solid foundation required to pursue the Business Continuity Management Expert certificate and advance their careers toward becoming BCMOs. Students with intermediate-level knowledge of business continuity may choose to begin their training at this stage.
Objectives:
The Business Continuity Practitioner certification exam assesses your 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 threats to your organization;
- Perform business impact analyses to identify critical business functions, processes, and resources;
- Prioritize threats and identify appropriate continuity measures;
- Establish Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTPD) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your processes;
- Draft and implement a business continuity plan;
- Determine key performance indicators for your business continuity plan;
- Develop and implement an emergency response plan in compliance with 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 organization;
- Identify recovery activities and priorities, and develop 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 key performance indicators for BCM testing.
Course Outline
Module 1: Threats and Vulnerability Analysis (BKA)
- The utility, necessity, and purpose of a BKA;
- Preparing a BKA and BKA reports;
- How your organization generally perceives threats and vulnerabilities;
- The difference between quantitative and qualitative assessments of threats and vulnerabilities;
- Methods for making threats and vulnerabilities manageable.
Module 2: Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- The utility, necessity, and purpose of a BIA;
- Existing methods for performing a BIA and conducting a subsequent damage assessment;
- Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and Recovery Point Objective (RPO);
- Types of consequential damage and determining a consequential damage profile;
- Required disciplines for BIA implementation;
- Preparing BIA reports.
Module 3: Introduction to Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- What is Crisis Management? Characteristics of a crisis;
- The difference between an incident and a crisis;
- The utility and necessity of crisis communication;
- The difference between image and reputation;
- Drafting a crisis management plan;
- The composition of the crisis organization; The role of social media during crises; Drafting 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;
- Requirements for the emergency response team;
- Setting up an emergency response organization;
- Government emergency response protocols.
Module 5: Crisis Management Plan (CMP) Module 6: Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
- What is a COOP and its purpose;
- Identifying plans within the COOP;
- Formulating and defining basic requirements for a recovery plan;
- Different types of recovery strategies and associated quality features;
- The importance of backing up and recovering digital and non-digital data; the need for external storage;
- Translating processes into underlying information systems and implementing remedial measures;
- The importance and composition of a recovery organization.
Requirements
It is recommended to hold the SECO-Business Continuity Foundation (S-BCF) certificate or an equivalent qualification.
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