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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
and
Risk Assessment (RA)
Workshops / Seminars

A good business continuity plan (BCP) or disaster recovery plan (DRP) must be based on a sound analysis of the risks that an organization faces. If you fail to identify a threat or fail to analyze the impact on your organization, you can neither manage the risk nor effectively plan for its potential consequences.

Your Business Impact Analysis:

  • Identifies the critical processes and dependencies within your organization.
  • Estimates the financial and other consequences if minimum service levels cannot be achieved.
  • Identifies the time constraints and minimum service levels you need to plan for in your recovery operations.
  • Determines which recovery strategies will work if organizational objectives are to be achieved.

Your Risk Assessment:

  • Identifies possible threats the continued operations of your organization.
  • Identifies cost-effective measures to mitigate those threats.
  • Determines, in conjunction with your business impact assessment, how much you should spend on risk reduction and business recovery planning.

Our seminars / workshops are designed to give you practical methods for identifying the threats your organization faces, determining their impact, prioritizing the risks, and generating the information you need to create a cost-effective business recovery strategy.

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What Will You Learn?

In this seminar you will:

  • Learn how to conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to determine the critical processes in your organization.
  • Learn the importance of the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and how these determine your recovery strategy.
  • Learn how to identify critical processes in your organization: which questions to ask, and who to ask them.
  • Learn about the Minimum Service Level (MSL), and how this is important in saving time and money following a disaster.
  • Learn practical methods for identifying and prioritizing risks.
  • Conduct practical exercises in risk assessment using quantitative and qualitative techniques.
  • Learn how the Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment for the basis for every good Business Continuity Plan.

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Who Should Attend?

You should attend this seminar / workshop if:

  • You are writing a Business Continuity Plan and need to identify which risks the plan should cover or which recovery strategy you should adopt.
  • You are maintaining or updating an existing Business Continuity Plan and therefore need to ensure that all major threats have been addressed in the plan.
  • You are responsible for an IT department's Disaster Recovery Plan, and wish to ensure that the department's plan will meet the organization's needs.
  • You are responsible for managing the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning process.
  • You are a financial officer or controller, and therefore have responsibility for risk.

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My team needs training. Is there an in-house option?

Seminars are also available as customized or in-house seminars. Contact us for more details.

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Our seminars are constantly being revised to include our latest research and to better fit the needs of our attendees. We therefore reserve the right to make changes to improve the content of our seminars at any time.

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