Course Overview

Security Operations must establish Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to ensure business continuity during an emergency or crisis. Staff supporting the Security Operations need to be familiar with the BCP to quickly respond to the undesired event and recover the operations/business back to normal.  

The new Security Agencies Competency Evaluation (SACE) include a BCP component in the core competencies and the elective competencies. Hence, it is important for Security Agencies to understand how to establish and implement a BCP for its business.

Learning Outcome

Understand the basics of Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Understand the Key components of ISO Standard ISO 22301 – Business Continuity?

Discuss the below contingencies:

Major disaster (e.g. island-wide floods, building collapse)

IT related incidents (e.g. cyber attacks)

Terror-related incident (e.g. bomb attack, vehicle attack)

Diseases outbreak (e.g. pandemic)

Implement BCP operations during contingencies

Explain Roles and responsibilities of the SA's staff (both security and non-security staff) when the BCP is executed

Review BCP processes