Business Continuity Management (BCM)

Business Continuity Management (BCM)


Sometimes, even though information security management is correctly performed, a critical situation might arise, which causes business discontinuity. The consequences of this might be very dire: serious financial losses, or in extreme cases, bankruptcy.

An example of such a case might be the events of September 11. WTC companies suffered the loss of their business continuity. Unfortunately, many businesses had no emergency plans, or if they did, they were badly developed. The effect of this was, that many of those businesses went bankrupt.

It can therefore clearly be seen, that business contingency is the key to maintaining the competitive edge, financial liquidity, profit and company image.

DTI Information Security Breaches Survey 2004 clearly shows, that the worst effect of security breaches is loss of business continuity.

What’s interesting, this study shows that a quarter of surveyed organizations experienced cases of business discontinuity for more than one day, and one of the organizations even for more than a month, all caused by the Blaster worm!

The conclusion is clear – every organization is vulnerable to the loss of business continuity. That is why we must know, how to handle such a situation. We need developed and tested emergency plans, which include the plans to recover each system after a disaster happens.

The proposed training course will teach you, how to handle crisis situations, i.e.:

  • How to plan business contingency
  • What to pay particular attention to
  • How to develop emergency plans
  • How to update emergency plans
  • How to test emergency plans
  • How to execute emergency plan activities in case of a disaster

This course is aimed at:

  • Management
  • The directors and managers of key business departments
  • Security administrators
  • Personnel responsible for business contingency management
Upon completion of the training course, its participants will have a chance to take an exam, and obtain an ISecMan Security Engineer Certificate for “Business Continuity Management (BCM)”.