Business
Continuity / Disaster Recovery Gap Assessment
(One day;
8 CPE credits)
Find the starting point for improving
your business continuity and disaster recovery program.
Chances are, you have some business continuity and disaster recovery
planning in place, but it needs to be improved or even re-structured
entirely. How do you know where to start making improvements? You need
to perform a gap assessment to see where your organization is at with
its business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities today. After
previously completing our two-day course, A Risk-Based Approach to
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, you will already
know what should be done to best protect your revenues against potential
business disruptions and disasters. This additional one-day seminar will
teach you how to efficiently perform a gap assessment to clearly
determine what needs to be improved, and in what sequence. 
What else you will learn in this one-day seminar.
Learn the foundation of evaluating and measuring the
effectiveness and management of your Business Continuity Management
program. Learn the core best practices for:
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Understanding
how business continuity management compares to business continuity gap
assessment.
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How to formulate
the framework and scope of a BCM gap assessment.
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Knowing how to
write a clear and concise gap assessment program that management and other
stakeholders will understand and buy into.
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Understanding
how to schedule the review, estimate gap assessment time and effort, and to
streamline the gap assessment.
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Understanding
the challenges in reviewing complex processes, and in interacting with a
wide range of managerial and technical interviewees.
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Understanding
the challenges of auditing BCM of processes you do not understand
yourself.
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Understanding
how to analyze information collected to arrive at a well-founded gap
assessment
opinion.
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Learning to
avoid time-consuming detail when reviewing the BCM process.
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Learning how BCM
assessment reports are structured.
þ Using review
reporting samples and templates.
þ Learn to use
a
complete Standardized Gap Assessment Program as a template
(151 pages) for your assessment efforts. A complete template copy
of the 151 page gap assessment program is included with this course
Also based upon Business
Continuity Institute approved courseware, this course provides the
understanding and the tools you need to audit your business continuity
and disaster recovery management effectively. We will provide a
complete 151 page BCM Gap Assessment Program for you to use as a template
for your own BCM/DRM gap assessment. We will also provide a complete
sample audit report to help guide you in creating
your own audit report. At course completion, you will leave with
comprehensive tasks lists for initiating, conducting, analyzing, and
reporting on your BCM gap assessment.
Appropriate Attendees for this Seminar -
Some Executive Management (CEO/CFO/ISO) (Critical)
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Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Steering Committee Members (Critical)
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Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Team Leaders (Critical)
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Some Human Resources Management (Critical)
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IT Security Management (Critical)
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Network Management, Administration, and Technicians (Critical)
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Database Administrators (Critical)
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Law Enforcement (Critical)
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Facilities Management (Important)
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Risk Management (Important)
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Accounting / Finance / Payroll (Important)
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Public Relations
(Important)
Prerequisite
Requirement
This course teaches you and your management team how to
properly assess your existing program against the concepts taught in A
Risk-Based Approach to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Planning, which is a recommended prerequisite for this course.
Course Pricing, Scheduling, and Registration
Our courses are offered at various locations across
the United States and around the world. Please visit our online
event schedule for a current listing of
course times and locations, or to request course pricing or other
information.
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