Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer – ISO 22301 Training

Introduction

This course is available to be delivered in a classroom and Live-Training model. Live Training brings you the dynamic environment of the classroom, to your desk. Using your computer, you interact with the trainer and the trainees as if you were with them in the classroom. The students will be challenged with a series of exercises, supported by BEHAVIOUR and in-class drafted templates, were the learned knowledge and acquired expertise will came into practice. Exercises such as the understanding of the organization drivers; the business continuity context establishment, including the business continuity issues, BCMS interested parties and scope definition; assessing the current and target state to draft the basis for a gap analysis; establish the process and draft an practical approach for assessing and treatment of BCMS risk and opportunities; establish the business continuity objectives and plans for their achievement; identify and create processes and procedures to support the BCMS; Assess business continuity risks related with the disruption of the critical activities of the organization; draft of the business impact analysis (BIA); identify and draft the business continuity strategies and solutions to be implemented before, during and after a disruption; draft the base structure for a business continuity plan; identify and draft the exercises program strategy; establish the approach for performance evaluation, including the definition of measures and indicators, internal audits and management reviews; draft the basis for the continual improvement process, including the procedure and template for managing findings; among others, as applicable, are important to allow the implementation of the standard in an organization.
The fundamental knowledge of the Business Continuity 22301 Foundation course is included, so it is not a prerequisite or a training path.
Training materials updated with the last released editions of all the related best practices, including any related draft published.
On this course, the students will acquire the expertise to establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), in accordance with the requirements of the ISO 22301 International Standard.
Besides the fundamental concepts related with business continuity and a detailed overview clause-by-clause of the ISO 22301 standard and its requirements, the course leads the students through a step-by-step BEHAVIOUR customized methodology to implement the ISO 22301 international standard and achieve the ISO 22301 certification. The BCMS implementation process covered on this course is supported by the ISO 22300 standards family best practices (including ISO 22301, ISO 22313, ISO/TS 22317, ISO/TS 22318, ISO/TS 22331, ISO/TS 22332, ISO 22398, and many others), and the most recognized business continuity, information security, project management and IT best practices, the BEHAVIOUR customized methodology helps the students to transform the learned knowledge and expertise into real-world practice. Applying this knowledge, the students will be able to implement a Business Continuity Program based on ISO 22301 and lead with success their organization, or their customers organization, to the establishment and maintenance of an BCMS based on ISO 22301.
Based on a real-world adapted case-study organization, and supported by several approaches, templates, and other tools, including discussions and practical exercises, the students will team-up with their peers during this course and will be challenged to demonstrate their Lead Implementer skills to implement an BCMS for this organization. This training methodology train and prepare students for successfully implement the ISO 22301 standard in a real-world environment.

Training Methodology

This course is based on theorical, and practical sessions supported by a real-world adapted case-study.
The course includes hands-on practical and theorical exercises to:

• better prepare the students for the real-world challenges,
• to prepare and increase the likelihood of success on the certification exam, and
• train and prepare professionals for leading the BCMS implementation and achieve ISO 22301 certification.

This course is available to be delivered in a Classroom and Live-Training model.
Live Training brings you the dynamic environment of the classroom, to your desk. Using your computer, you interact with the trainer and the trainees as if you were with them in the classroom.

Audience

This course is intended to:

• Business Continuity, Information Security and/or IT Consultants, Auditors, Managers or Risk Professionals participating on an BCMS implementation based on ISO 22301
• Any Executive or Senior Manager responsible to ensure the alignment and delivery of value using an BCMS based on ISO 22301 and maintain a Business Continuity Program on their organization
• Experts responsible for the Business Continuity/IT Governance on the organization
• Project managers leading or preparing to lead an ISO 22301 implementation program
• Any professional, either, IT, information security, business continuity, business or any other, involved on the establishment, implementation, operations and/or continual improvement of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) based on ISO 22301
• Anyone who wants to acquire the knowledge needed to implement an ISO 22301 BCMS

Prerequisites

Students should understand English as the course documentation is in this language. Please consult BEHAVIOUR to verify the availability of the course on other languages.

Duration (days)

5 days

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental business continuity concepts, and the main of ISO 22301
• Get to know and understand the correlation of the ISO 22300 family standards, including ISO 22301, ISO 22313, and related ISO and other best practices, legislation, and regulation
• Establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), in accordance with the requirements of the ISO 22301 International Standard
• Understand and know how to implement and operate an BCMS in the context of an organization, including the required processes, plans, techniques, and tools
• Assess and treat risks and opportunities related with the outcomes of the BCMS to successfully achieve the business continuity objectives and respond to the organization objectives
• Identify, draft, and implement the required business continuity requirements based on the ISO 22313 best practices
• Assess business continuity risk scenarios and analyze the impact on the organization related to the disruption of critical activities
• Identify appropriate strategies and solutions and draft Business Continuity Plans to ensure the appropriate response of the organization related with the several risk scenarios and the business continuity recovery objectives
• Implement and maintain a program of exercising and testing, consistent with the organization business continuity objectives and based on appropriate scenarios, to validate over time the effectiveness of the business continuity strategies and solutions
• Identify, draft, and continuously evaluate the BCMS required documented information, including templates for policies, processes, procedures, plans, among others required
• Understand and implement the performance evaluation requirements, including the approaches for monitoring and measure the BCMS, the internal audit program, and the management review
• Identify and respond to the BCMS continual improvement requirements based on the continual changes in the context of an organization, ensuring the continuous availability of the required capabilities and related alignment with the business requirements
• Advise an organization on the latest business continuity best practices in support to the business continuity and business objectives
• Lead the organization to the achievement of the ISO 22301 certification

Program

1. Introduction to Business Continuity, the ISO 22301 standard and, related best practices
• Course introduction
• Business continuity standards, legislation, and regulation
• Business continuity fundamentals
• Presentation and overview of the BCMS requirements
• Preparing for BCMS implementation – approach and methodology
• Understanding of the organization drivers and establishing the business continuity context
• Drafting the BCMS scope
• Assessing the current and target state for the BCMS gap analysis


2. Establish (Plan) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Leadership and commitment for the BCMS Business Continuity Program establishment
• Drafting the Business Continuity Policy
• Establish the BCMS organizational structures (roles, responsibilities, and authorities)
• Assessment and treatment of BCMS risks and opportunities
• Establishing and planning the Business continuity objectives and planning changes to the BCMS
• Determine and provide support to establish and operate the BCMS (resources, competence, awareness, internal and external communication, documented information)
• Drafting the documented information management process
• Required BCMS documented information and templates for the BCMS implementation and operation (Policies, Processes, Procedures, Plans, among others)


3. Implement and Operate (Do) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Best practices for drafting and implementing business continuity processes based on ISO 22313 and related ISO and other business continuity best practices
• Drafting the business impact analysis and the process for assessment of disruptive risk scenarios
• Identify and select business continuity strategies and solutions
• Draft and implement business continuity plans and procedures
• Business continuity team plans (e.g., incident and communications management, continuity of product/service, emergency response, business unit recovery, technology recovery, facilities recovery, among others)
• Business continuity specific plans (e.g., pandemic and epidemic, cyber-attack, among others)
• Building a crisis management capability and developing the crisis management plan
• Exercises and testing program
• Transitioning the BCMS to operations


4. Monitor and Review (Check) and, Maintain and Improve (Act) an BCMS based on ISO 22301; Advance for the ISO 22301 Certification Audit
• Monitoring, measurement, analysis, and evaluation
• Internal audit program
• Management review
• Managing findings, including nonconformities, and apply corrective actions
• Continual improvement process
• Advance for the ISO 22301 certification audit
• Personnel certification and closing the training

Exam

The “Certified Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer” exam covers the following competence domains:

• Domain 1: Business continuity fundamentals and ISO 22301 requirements
• Domain 2: Establish (Plan) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Domain 3: Implement and Operate (Do) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Domain 4: Monitor and Review (Check) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Domain 5: Maintain and Improve (Act) an BCMS based on ISO 22301
• Domain 6: Advance for the ISO 22301 Certification Audit

Language(s): English (please consult BEHAVIOUR for availability on additional languages).
Exam details: One part exam.
Duration: 3 hours.
Results: “Pass or Fail” qualitative score. In the case of a failure, the result will be accompanied with the list of domains in which you had a mark lower than the passing grade. If the candidate fails the exam, he is entitled to one free retake within a 1-year period from the initial exam date.
Passing score: 700/1000 marks.
Exam type: Scenarios-based open questions.

Certification

After successfully completing the certification exam, participants may apply for one of the three available credentials for this personnel certification scheme, depending on their level of experience.

• Certified Business Continuity 22301 Associate Implementer: no previous experience required.
• Certified Business Continuity 22301 Implementer: 2 years of experience on business continuity
• Certified Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer: 5 years of experience on business continuity

A certificate will be issued to participants who successfully pass the exam and comply with all the other requirements related to the selected credential. Candidates also receive the digital badge of the certification achieved.
The “Certified Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer” personnel certification program is drafted and maintained according to the ISO/IEC 17024 standard.

Trainer

Our specialists are renowned consultants and auditors, with several years of experience in the areas of implementation, auditing and training in BS 25999 and ISO 22301, with particular focus on the family of standards ISO 22300, 27000, ISO 24762 (Disaster Recovery) and their associated standards.

General Information

• Training in English language.
• Online training material resources in English, with online access, and in accordance with the commercial conditions.
• Practical step-by-step implementation methodology
• Behaviour Digital Participation Certificate of 40 CPD/CPE credits.
• Online Certification Exam in Portuguese or English language. The exam can be taken up to 2 months from the start date of the course.
• If the candidate fails the exam, he is entitled to one free retake within a 2 month period from the date of the exam result.
• Certification Diploma and certification badge after successful examination and formal process registration. This process has no associated cost.

Benefits

• ISO 22301 is an auditable Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).


• ISO 22301 allows certification and international recognition of an organization; access to new markets and optimization of operations; and improves quality, increases productivity, competitive advantage, customer satisfaction and sales revenues.


• Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer course bases its pedagogical model in a certification program based on the ISO/IEC 17024 standard, which defines the requirements for certification of people, fulfilling the recommendations of ISO.


• Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer course geared towards to the implementation of the standard, through a step-by-step implementation process. Thus, throughout the course, in addition to the basic concepts of BCMS, are presented the steps needed to prepare and start the BCMS implementation program, which includes the selection of the approach, the implementation methodology, among other activities needed to implement the BCMS, based on the customized methodology presented, including BCMS operation and therefore the control, monitoring and continuous improvement.


• One of the strengths of the Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer course, in addition to inclusion of customized implementation methodology, is that it allows to prepare professionals for the audit of ISO 22301 certification and the registration in a certifying body. Addresses itself to this end, the recommendations of ISO 19011 and the ISO/IEC 17021-1 – requirements for certification bodies.


• Certification exam is monitored by an official Behaviour administrator.


• The Certified Business Continuity 22301 Lead Implementer certification exam is conducted at the end of the course, on the last day of training, which focuses on development questions and case studies allowing the certifying entity to measure, more effectively, the knowledge of the candidates.


• Upon success in the exam, the professional will achieve one of the Business Continuity 22301 certifications levels. In case of failure, professional may repeat the exam at no additional cost, within 1 year after the date of the 1st examination.


• Behaviour Pedagogical Model aims to provide a learning environment conducive to acquisition of competences, in accordance with objectives of each training program. Promoting interaction, participation, and appreciation of experiences, we contribute to meaningful learning, certification, and international recognition but, above all to the development of critical thinking and autonomy.


• Behaviour is an organization accredited by DGERT (Portuguese Government Entity). Behaviour has its Quality Management System (QMS) implemented in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001, the requirements of DGERT, the requirements of the European standard NP 4512 and the standard ISO 10015.

Dates and Price

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