WHY IS BCP IMPORTANT?

■ The role of the BCP
■ Operational resilience and BCP
■ The changing expectations
■ The ownership of the BCP
■ Developing the inputs into the BCP
■ Identifying key assets
■ Identifying key personnel
■ Understanding the way processes work under stress
■ Where is the information we require?
■ Understanding your infrastructure
■ Stakeholder considerations
■ Dealing with communications
■ Using external data
■ BCP and remote working

THE KEY ELEMENTS OF A DISASTER PLAN
■ What should you document?
■ Where should your plan be held/located?
■ In what form should your plan be maintained?
■ Consideration of any additional guidance
■ Developing a graduated plan
■ Embedding BCP into business planning and change programmes

HOW DOES THE RISK IN ONE AREA IMPACT ANOTHER?
■ Identification of risks
■ Internal mapping and modelling
■ Internal SLAs
■ Third party risk management and its impact
■ Monitoring third parties
■ Identifying and acting upon weaknesses in third party control structures
■ What is it possible to mitigate
■ Substitutability
■ Being wary of assumptions
■ Escalating failure and its impact
■ Cascading failure and its impact

TESTING THE BCP
■ What is the purpose of the test?
■ What can you realistically test?
■ Does your existing test achieve anything?
■ The role of testing the fire system
■ Can you synthetically test?
■ Developing and applying scenarios
■ Using other cases as a baseline
■ Avoiding unnecessary problems
■ The cost benefit analysis

HOW TO WORK UNDER PRESSURE?
■ What does stress look like?
■ Are all staff impacted similarly?
■ Which staff will you need?
■ Where will they be?
■ Designing a disaster room structure
■ The role of the disaster room
■ Who do you need and when?
■ Impact on policy and reporting

HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE IN TOUCH WITH EACH OTHER?
■ Designing the people chain
■ Dealing with people
■ Dealing with skills gaps
■ The implications for compliance
■ Dealing with people’s needs

THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY SITE
■ The objectives of the continuity site
■ The contract and location
■ What should be at the site?
■ What this can and cannot address
■ Getting to the site
■ Operating at the site
■ Who else needs the site?
■ The cloud and other backup processes
■ What goes wrong in practice?

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO HAVE AVAILABLE TO START WORK AGAIN?
■ When to leave the continuity site?
■ How to assess equipment
■ How to assess software
■ How to assess staffing
■ How to assess whether it is safe to operate?
■ What can go wrong?

HOW TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS?
■ What were you doing when disaster struck?
■ How will you know when to start trade again?
■ What are the key skills you require?
■ Are there any tools that will assist you in this process?
■ What is the connection between business continuity planning, risk appetite and insurance?

Delegates will gain both specialist technical and behavioural knowledge, techniques and applications in the workplace, specifically

• The changing regulatory expectations regarding business continuity management
• How banks need to identify potential events to consider their impact
• The importance of understanding the internal relationships within the organisation
• The changing role of third party risk management
• The limitations of testing and how this can be resolved
• The importance of the identification of threats

Delegates who complete the course will receive a Certificate with equivalent CPD/CPE credits via email; and for those who require an assessment as a demonstration of competency via training a 20 multiple-choice questions and answers quiz, remotely invigilated with results report and 1 resit, is available at no additional charge when requested at time of reservation.

Highly interactive expert-led intensive presentation, Q&A, group real-time in-depth case studies, regulation and discussion supported by key principles and theory. The virtual learning platform uses safe, industry preferred encrypted Cisco WebEx to optimize live face-to-face visual interaction, discrete chat, for polling and quizzes.

(An invitation via email with access link is included for all participants.)