Mitigating Security Risks: Maintaining Business Continuity

Business continuity planning (BCP) ensures an organization functions smoothly during an unplanned incident or disaster. In this course youll explore what comprises BCP and how you can employ its methods before during and after a disaster. Youll learn about the importance of a business continuity plan and whats needed to create an effective one. Youll differentiate a business continuity plan from disaster recovery and emergency action plans. Youll then investigate some of the individual BCP steps in more detail including the business impact analysis (BIA) risk management plan and incident response plan phases. Moving on youll study whats involved in post-disaster recovery planning. Finally youll explore how to achieve business resiliency and excellence in the face of a disaster and during a pandemic examining not only how to get back to normal but also how to exploit new opportunities and grow.