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Business Continuity Management

And IT Disaster Recovery
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You Will: Case Studies

• Learn proven techniques to assess and reduce risk and

vulnerability Who Should Attend?
• Discover how to organise, initiate and control your business
continuity programme This highly beneficial course is developed
• Get an introduction to the new standard BS 25999 and for professionals responsible for business
PAS 77 continuity and disaster recovery. Specialists
• Gain the latest techniques to make business continuity responsible for ensuring the continuity of
planning easier critical IT and telecommunications systems
• Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and/or processes will certainly benefit. It is
and processes suitable for those working in the areas of
• Learn how to write and test effective business continuity business continuity, disaster recovery
and disaster recovery plans specifically in IT, IT infrastructure, IT security
• Enhance your professional expertise and skills and information systems. It is also suitable
for those professionals working in the
business areas of operations, audit and
technical support.

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Course Timings: Registration will be at 8:00 on Day One. The programme will commence promptly at 8:30 on each day and conclude at
14:30 with lunch. There will be two refreshment breaks at appropriate intervals.

Business continuity planning is fundamental to the well-being of an organisation. Clearly, it is intended to ensure continuity in the face of
unforeseen or difficult circumstances. Planning for these situations is not always straightforward of course. The creation and maintenance of a
sound business continuity plan is a complex undertaking, involving a series of steps that will be outlined in the course.

Day One – Sunday, 25 May 2008 Why Insurance Won’t Save You? Day Four – Wednesday, 28 May 2008
• Insurance pitfalls
Business Continuity Management • What insurance can and can not do? Disaster Recovery Planning

Introduction And Objectives
Introduction to the new British Standards
Institution standard BSI 25999 and Business
Continuity Institute Good Practice Guide
2007
Project Initiation And Management
• Definition of terms
• The project
• Awareness and training programmes
Risk Evaluation And Control
• Risk management: the key to security
• Risk analysis: avoidance, reduction,
containment or transfer?
• Risk analysis – methodologies
• Critical component failure analysis
Exercise: Case Study – Risk
Business Impact Analysis
• Business impact analysis: the costs of
disaster
• Maximum acceptable outage – the time
window for recovery
Exercise: Business Continuity Strategy Introduction And Objectives
Introduction to the new British Standards
Emergency Response And Operations Institution Publicly Available Specification 77
• Immediate response (PAS 77) for Disaster Recovery
• Co-ordination with public authorities
The Purpose Of IT Disaster Recovery Planning
Business Continuity During • Why plan?
Corporate Restructuring • What are we trying to protect?
• How IT DR fits into BC project and other
Developing And Implementing The Business plans (CM, Emergency, BC)
Continuity Plan • Practical: list your main IT assets
• Business management issues and • Recovery timescales – talking to users
organisation • Practical: assign recovery timescales and
• Planning assumptions and prerequisites priority to each asset
• Writing the dynamic business continuity • Scoping the project – what is IT responsible
plan for?
Backup Regimes
Day Three – Tuesday, 27 May 2008 • Concepts
• Frequency
Business Continuity Roles And Responsibilities • Integrity
• The business continuity manager: role and • Confidentiality
tasks • Statutory requirements
• Departmental business continuity managers: • Storage location
role and tasks • News solutions

Vital Materials Protection Public Relations And Media Management Recovery Concepts/Options
• What are vital materials? • Support functions • Continuous processing/hot/warm/cold
• Requirements analysis • Business and department plans: timescales
• What is needed for recovery? documentation hierarchy - Location
- Hot sites
Exercise: Business Impact Analysis Exercise: Creating A Business Continuity - Mirroring – different flavours
Organisation • Warm start
- Test machine
Day Two – Monday, 26 May 2008 Structuring The Business Continuity Plan - Second site
• BC plan structure and contents - Home working
Developing Continuity Strategies • Action plans - Cold site options
• The role of business continuity software - Prefab – site build options
Project Initiation And Management - Office/canteen/training space
• Strategy options Exercise: Developing The Plan • Others
• Pros and cons - Fortress
Auditing, Testing And Maintaining Business - Insurance
Public Relations And Crisis Communication: Continuity Plans - Do nothing
Key To Survival • The role of business continuity software
• Managing the media • Plan audit Third Party Solutions
• Internal and external communication • Maintaining the plan • Maintenance
• First in or shared
Video: Business As Usual • Review of offerings for hot, warm, cold

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 25 – 29 May 2008

• Ship in Network Solutions Integrating The Plan

• Mobile • ISDN/ATM • Disaster recovery vs. business continuity
• Tendering • Capacity planning • How to integrate disaster recovery into the
• Analysing tenders – exclusion zones, ratios • Home working business continuity plan
• Writing the plan – what NOT to do • Remote access from ICC to check
• Use DR suppliers for advice Testing The Plan
Voice Solutions • The need for testing and maintenance
• Redirection • Methods for testing
Day Five – Thursday, 29 May 2008 • Mobile • When, how and what to test
• Call centres
Comparison Of Computer Solutions • Worked example: network strategy Forthcoming Relevant Events
• SWOT of DIY, 3rd party and reciprocal
A0899 IT Service Management Conference
• Costs of solutions Other IT Responsibilities
23 – 27 March 2008
• Reality • Workspace www.iirme.com/itsm
• Printing BC2568 IT Project Management
Complexity Of Multi-Systems • Supplies 13 – 17 April 2008
• Document Management Systems www.iirme.com/itproject
Exercise: Find A Solution To Fit Each Item Of • Power BC2554 IT Risk Management
Kit You Have – Any Left? • Dispatch 22 – 26 April 2008
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The Business Continuity Institute (www.thebci.org) was formed in 1994 to promote the art and science of business continuity management
worldwide. With nearly 4,000 members in over 80 countries and a growing list of international Chapters and Forums, The BCI is increasingly
being seen as a leading voice in world Business Continuity.

The BCI was behind the new British Standards Institution BSI 25999, Guidelines for Business Continuity Planning. All of its professional members
will have undergone a rigorous admissions process to ensure they are highly competent in their areas of expertise. Membership of the BCI
provides a career-boosting statement of professionalism.

With this important course, you will get your foot on the first rung of this membership ladder. Upon completion of this course, you will receive free
Affiliate Membership of the BCI for one year.

Meet Your Expert Course Director

Andrew Hiles FBCI is a founding Director of Kingswell International, a global consultancy in enterprise risk management. He
has over 30 years’ international experience of business continuity planning, having conducted projects in some 60 countries. He
was founder and, for some 15 years, Chairman of the first international user group for business continuity professionals. He was
founding Director of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and also of the World Food Safety Organization.

Andrew was a member of the committee establishing the British Standards Institution BSI 7799 Information Security standard
(which has now evolved into ISO 27001). He has been a member of the advisory board of the Continuity Forum and an
editorial board advisor to Contingency Planning and Management Magazine (CPM) and to Continuity Central. He also is a
mentor under the BCI mentoring scheme.

Andrew is the author of Business Continuity – Best Practice and Enterprise Risk Assessment – Best Practices, both published by Rothstein
Associates, the Guide to Risk Management published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; and editor of The
Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management, published by Wiley. Andrew contributed to the Guide to Business Continuity
Management, published for the Confederation of British Industry by Caspian Publishing; and to Business Continuity Management, published by
the UK Institute of Directors and Department of Trade & Industry. One of his books was made the only required reading for a BC course at DePaul
University, Chicago. He has over 300 published articles on business continuity to his credit.

Andrew is a speaker or chair at many international conferences and has delivered over 500 successful public and in-company workshops and
training courses, as well as broadcasting on television, radio, webinars and podcasts.

He developed the Business Risk Management course for the 330,000 members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
Business Continuity workshops for the UK Office of Government Commerce (The UK Cabinet Office’s advisory service for the public sector). He
presents training in the Americas; Eastern, Central and Western Europe; the Middle East; China; the Indian sub-continent; Australia; and the
Pacific Rim for the world’s leading training companies.

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