Integrating Your Business Continuity Management into Your Enterprise Risk Management Program

In this basic course, you will learn how to switch perspectives from having a Business Continuity Plan to an ongoing Business Continuity Management (BCM) system and how to integrate it into your Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program. Marci Malzahn will take you through the key elements of the FFIEC’s Business Continuity Management Booklet that is part of the FFIEC’s IT Examination Handbook. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of ERM, BCP, and BCM and with some practical tools to increase your resiliency.

Part I: The ERM Puzzle

• Basic overview of ERM
• Types of Risk Categories
• Types of Adverse Events

Part II: Business Continuity Management

• Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
• The BCM Cycle, Governance and Responsibilities of Leadership and Board
• BCM Audit and BCM Elements relative to ERM
• What does “Resilience of Operations” mean and how do you become resilient?
• Business Continuity Strategies

Part III: Life with Ongoing Threats – Resiliency

• Vendor Management: The role of Third-Party Service Providers
• Business Continuity Plan: Definition, Elements, and Components
• BCP and Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, and Training
• The importance of testing and what to do with the results
• Pandemic End-of-Crisis Risk Assessment: One risk category at a time

Key Learning Objectives:

1. The difference and relationship between the BCP and the BCM
2. The BCM Cycle
3. The BCM Governance and Responsibilities of Senior Management and Board
4. How BCM fits in within the ERM umbrella
5. What does “Resilience of Operations” mean and how do you become resilient?
6. Business Continuity Strategies
7. The role of Third-Party Service Providers (Vendor Management)
8. Incidence Response for the various types of incidents
9. The importance of testing and what to do with the results
10. What to expect from an examination

Who Should Attend:

Enterprise Risk Management leader and ERM team, IT personnel, IT Director, IT leaders or those who have IT reporting to them, senior leadership involved in BCM or who want to learn how BCM and ERM are integrated

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