Business Continuity Foundation (S-BCF)

Candidates should possess basic knowledge of business continuity.

The SECO Institute Business Continuity Foundation certificate is based on ISO/IEC 22301 and covers the basic concepts of business continuity. The certificate demonstrates you have acquired a solid grounding in the most important theoretical and practical aspects of business continuity.

Target Audience:

• Facility managers
• Security managers
• Information managers
• Service level managers
• Marketing managers
• Supply chain managers
• Team managers
• IT employees
   

Objectives:

• Developing a Business Continuity Process
• Developing and Implementing a Business Continuity Plan
• Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Testing and Maintaining Business Continuity
   

Module 1: Developing a Business Continuity Process

• The BCM process and recognizing the steps within the process (inclusion, input, and output)
• BCM as a supporting process within the organization
• Position of the BCM process with other processes in the organization
• Researching the status of the BCM process in an organization and the steps the to improve the process
• Designing a BCM process from an organizational point of view
• Distinguishing between tasks, responsibilities and policy
• The BCM policy and how this is set out in a policy document.
   

Module 2: Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities

• The consequences if a product or service has not been delivered as agreed
• What the maximum downtime of processes should be
• How take preventive measures and when to use these measures
   

Module 3: Developing and Implementing a Business Continuity Plan

• The different components of a plan
• The costs and benefits of each plan
• Who is responsible for which plan within the organization
• The structure of a plan
• Organizational resiliency recovery from a threat that has hit the organization