Spring World World 2011

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COURSE 1: Overview to the Six Core BCM Competencies in BCI's Good Practice Guidelines

Cost: $ 2156 for DRJ Attendees, $2695 for non-attendees

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:30am-5pm and Thursday, March 29, 2012- 8:30am –5pm,

Friday, March 30, 2012-8:30-5pm

Saturday, March 31,2012 8:30-12:30pm

Exam offered Sunday, April 1, 2012 – 9am

The Official Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) course is the most comprehensive, complete review of business continuity concepts and industry best practices in the world and serves as the foundation for the CBCI certification. The Good Practice Guidelines Course covers the six phases of the BCM Lifecycle and links them more directly to what are now defined as Professional Practices (PP). The 6 PPs are sub-divided into 2 Management Practices and 4 Technical Practices.

Management Practices

• Policy & Programme Management

• Embedding BCM in the Organization's Culture

Technical Practices

• Understanding the Organization

• Determining BCM Strategy

• Developing and Implementing a BCM response

• Exercising, Maintaining and Reviewing

All attendees will also receive free access to the BCI‚s world-class e-learning system as well as a hard bound copy of the GPG in order to allow for pre-conference studies as well as additional preparation prior to sitting for the BCI Certification Examination

COURSE 2: Crisis & Incident Management

Cost: $1200

Instructor Led Training, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:30pm-5pm, Thursday,

March 29, 2012 8:30am-5pm and Friday, March 30, 2012-8:30am-1:00pm

This two-day course is aimed primarily at those who are tasked with managing an incident, whether at a Strategic or Tactical level or those who have to train or exercise others in these roles. It gives practical experience and theoretical guidance for dealing with a variety of incidents.

Topics covered include:

• How is an incident escalated and by what structures?

• Who makes up the incident management team

• What resources does the team require?

• What does an incident management plan contain?

• How are crisis communications managed?

• How do you train and exercise the team?

• What is an incident - how does is affect an organisation?

COURSE 3: Writing the Plan

Cost: $530

Instructor Led Training, Thursday, March 29, 2012- 8:30am-5pm

This one day course will give you skills to help you to write your Business Continuity or Resumption Plan. It is very much a practical course, following the timeline of an incident affecting a company with no formal plans. As each new problem arises, solutions and alternative strategies will be discussed leading to an outline plan that has developed from a user perspective. The course follows BS 25999-1.

Topics covered include:

• Emergency response

• Communication

• Crisis Management

• Situation assessment

• Managing the recovery

• Resource issues and solutions

• Asset restoration

• Testing the new plan

COURSE 4: BCM Audit

Cost: $1200

Instructor Led Training, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:30pm-5pm, Thursday, March 29,

2012 8:30am -5pm and Friday, March 30, 2012-8:30am-1:00pm

Understand business continuity management systems‚ requirements Understand purpose of auditing the business continuity management systemGain knowledge on the practice of conducting a holistic BCM Audit Daily exercises designed to give hands-on experience in each of the subject matters.

CBCI Certification Exam

Cost: $500

Sunday, April 1. 2012, 9am

BCI Examination-offered to individuals in classes and open to public

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