Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Business Continuity Plan
The ability to recover from an incident is crucial to a company's survival. A business continuity plan can help a company quickly recover and survive these critical incidents while maintaining the trust of customers, investors, and vendors.
What you'll learn
Business continuity planning is a crucial component of responding to critical incidents, ensuring customer, investor, and vendor confidence, and can ultimately determine long-term survival of a company in the aftermath of a disaster.
In this course, Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Business Continuity Plan, you will learn the foundational concepts of what comprises a successful business continuity plan. First, you will see how to assess risk. Next, you will explore how to develop a business case to secure funding, strategic, tactical, and operational controls that every business continuity plan should have as well as ways to embed business continuity and cybersecurity into your company's culture. Finally, you will be taught best practices for delivering training to ensure maximum participation and impact throughout all levels of your organization.
By the end this course, you will have a solid understanding of what business continuity planning means to your organization, how to get started, and how to make sure the plan is complete, realistic, and actionable.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 2m
- Importance of Business Continuity 2m
- Primary Goals of Business 2m
- Relationship to Cybersecurity 1m
- Importance of Executive Buy-in 2m
- Competing for Funding 2m
- Standards and Specifications 1m
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) 3m
- Good Practice Guidelines and ISO 22301 2m
- Specific Requirements of Business Continuity Planning 4m
- Business Continuity Management System vs. Business Continuity Plan 2m
- Plan/Do/Check/Act 3m
- ISO 22301:2012 Clauses and Structure 2m
- Business Continuity Terminology 6m
- BCM Real World Application 3m
- Establishing the Business Case 5m
- Wired Brain Coffee Corporate Layout and Structure 3m
- Module Introduction 1m
- Assessing Risk and Establishing Context 2m
- Chain of Consequence 4m
- Types of Cyber Vulnerabilities 5m
- Impact of Cybercrime 2m
- Ransomware Examples 2m
- Physical and Environmental Concerns 1m
- Social Engineering 1m
- Assessing Wired Brain Coffee's Risks 3m
- Business Continuity First 2m
- Module Introduction 1m
- Risk Management 1m
- Risk Management Process: Strategic, Tactical, and Operational 2m
- Strategic Options 2m
- Tactical and Operational Options 2m
- ISO/IEC Guidelines 3m
- NIST Guidelines 2m
- Types of Plans 1m
- Incident Management Plan 1m
- Business Continuity Plans 1m
- Disaster Recovery Plans 1m
- Business Resumption Plans 1m
- Reporting Requirements 1m
- Handling the Press 2m
- How Planning Applies to Wired Brain Coffee 3m
- Residual Risk 2m
- Module Introduction 1m
- Defining Goals and Expected Outcomes 4m
- Need for Realistic Testing 1m
- Types of Testing and Exercises 2m
- Communications Testing 1m
- Simulation Exercise 1m
- Partial Exercise 1m
- Full Exercise 1m
- Overall Cost and Complexity of Testing 1m
- Plan Review and Maintenance 2m
- Review Process Outcomes 1m
- Wired Brain Coffee's Testing 3m
About the author
Chris is a professional information technologist, author, trainer, manager and a lifelong learner. He is married with 3 beautiful children and interested in working out, spending time with family and friends and being creative whenever possible. He has been an author for over 25 years and has created over 60 IT Certification training courses. Chris really enjoys helping people advance in their careers through training and personal development.