Business Continuity Planning - eLearning

A Business Continuity Plan is a collection of policies, procedures, protocols and information that is developed, compiled and maintained in readiness for use in the event of a business interruption.

Companies that have a strong continuity program in place and train staff in understanding the program can realise a number of benefits – from getting the business up and running as soon as possible to staff health and well-being.

Topics include:

• What Business Continuity is & why it’s required
• Identification of mission-critical services
• Relating service delivery to the business function
• Conducting a Business Impact Analysis
• Developing & testing the Business Continuity Plan
• Evacuation & firewardens
• Business Continuity Plan awareness.

Learning Outcomes
Upon satisfactory completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• Understand what a Business Continuity Plan is and why it’s important.
• Identify mission-critical services and determine the maximum acceptable downtime.
• Isolate the business functions that are required to support mission-critical services and rate the function’s level of importance.
• Conduct a Business Impact Analysis.
• Employ methods to test the Business Continuity Plan.

Benefits
Understand how you can disaster-proof your organisation for the future.