Enterprise Resilience through Business Continuity Planning [Business Tutorial]

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Presented at AUScert 2008 by

Guy Peterson

Mr Grover

Business continuity planning is the process of developing advance arrangements and procedures that enable an organisation to respond to a disruptive event in such a manner that critical business processes continue with planned levels of interruption or essential change. The BCP program takes a full lifecycle approach to prevent and respond to a range of potential disruptions with defined roles and responsibilities throughout. Business continuity planning is a never-ending cyclical process. Procedures require routine testing and evaluation and the strategies for achieving business continuity need to be examined as business operations, the operating reality, and technologies change. Business continuity planning establishes an enterprise-wide risk-impact based approach to aligning assurance and continuity objectives with business objectives. This half-day workshop will discuss operational environments and the drivers which are making sound business continuity planning a necessity for Enterprise Resilience. The architecture of a business continuity plan will be discussed, and the audience will be taken through each step of the business continuity planning process working towards the development of a complete Business Continuity Plan. Steps to be examined will include: Establish Planning Roles and Responsibilities; Conduct Risk Assessment; Conduct Business Impact Analysis; Develop Continuity Strategies; Plan Testing, Training, and Exercises; and Plan Maintenance. This half-day workshop is aimed at any inpidual who wishes to learn a sound methodology for developing, implementing and maintaining a Business Continuity Plan in support of a larger Business Continuity Management Program. Anyone attending this half-day workshop can expect to gain a good understanding of a Business Continuity Management Program, and the process of developing, implementing and maintaining an effective Business Continuity Plan (BCP).