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BCP200: Assessing Your Organization’s Business Risk Exposure: What Every CIO Should Know About Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

CPE credits: 7

Description: The continued successful operation of an organization depends on senior management’s awareness of potential disasters and their ability to develop a strategy which minimizes the disruption of critical functions and addresses the capability to recover affected operations expediently and successfully. A majority of plans focus on unplanned downtime and its costs; less frequently mentioned is planned downtime, because many businesses operate nearly continuously.

This seminar examines the various causes of technological failure, the impact to the organization, and the importance of mitigating IT risk through proactive business continuity planning.

The formidable challenges facing management today and the growing complexity of IT systems that support business operations make continuity planning a high priority for IT management. This seminar examines the key components of successful continuity planning, and methodologies designed to measure the effectiveness of the organization’s ability to restore IT and operational integrity following a disaster “event”.

Audience: This seminar is intended for internal and external audit professionals, General Counsels, Chief Security Officers, Controllers and their management, InfoSec professionals, continuity planners, first responders, operations managers, Human Resource professionals, third-party service providers, emergency management personnel, personnel newly assigned to a disaster recovery role or those employed in a technical role who need to have a better understanding of the breadth of continuity planning, and anyone interested in obtaining a better understanding of the requirements necessary for identifying, developing and maintaining a viable and successful enterprise-wide business continuity plan.

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

Objectives: After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

Identify broad, strategic issues in continuity planning that affect operations
Build the business case to support pro-active and continuous Business Continuity Planning (BCP) development across the enterprise
Develop continuity plans in line with emerging regulatory compliance and corporate governance initiatives
Identify practices aimed at protecting the assets of the organization
Create continuity plans which ensure the safety of personnel and customers, and minimize the organization's legal liability
Develop continuity plans which help to minimize potential economic loss to the enterprise

Course Outline:

Analyzing risk and developing a risk management policy
Importance of mitigating IT risk
Analyzing business impacts
Balancing recovery, integrity and cost
Building the business case to support continuity planning
Control considerations - establishing a protected environment
Merging business continuity with corporate governance
Developing an exercising a business continuity plan
Disaster case study and team exercise
Ensuring ongoing enterprise operations

Dr. Marcella's seminar is based on findings from his book, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Incident Management Planning: A Resource for Ensuring Ongoing Enterprise Operations, published by the Institute of Internal Auditors, ISBN 0-89413-527-9.

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