Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Business Continuity Plan

by Christopher Rees

The ability to recover from an incident is crucial to a company's survival. A business continuity plan can help a company quickly recover and survive these critical incidents while maintaining the trust of customers, investors, and vendors.

What you'll learn

Business continuity planning is a crucial component of responding to critical incidents, ensuring customer, investor, and vendor confidence, and can ultimately determine long-term survival of a company in the aftermath of a disaster.

In this course, Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Business Continuity Plan, you will learn the foundational concepts of what comprises a successful business continuity plan. First, you will see how to assess risk. Next, you will explore how to develop a business case to secure funding, strategic, tactical, and operational controls that every business continuity plan should have as well as ways to embed business continuity and cybersecurity into your company's culture. Finally, you will be taught best practices for delivering training to ensure maximum participation and impact throughout all levels of your organization.

By the end this course, you will have a solid understanding of what business continuity planning means to your organization, how to get started, and how to make sure the plan is complete, realistic, and actionable.

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About the author

Chris is a professional information technologist, trainer, manager and lifelong learner. He is married with 3 beautiful children and interested in martial arts, working out, spending time with family and friends and being creative whenever possible. He has created a number of IT Certification training courses over the past 10 years and really enjoys helping people advance their careers through training and personal development.

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