Aspire     Security Essentials for Decision-makers and Leaders     Security Essentials - Track 3: Mitigating Security Risks

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Business continuity planning (BCP) ensures an organization functions smoothly during an unplanned incident or disaster. In this course, you'll explore what comprises BCP and how you can employ its methods before, during, and after a disaster.
You'll learn about the importance of a business continuity plan and what's needed to create an effective one. You'll differentiate a business continuity plan from disaster recovery and emergency action plans. You'll 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, you'll study what's involved in post-disaster recovery planning. Finally, you'll 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.

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Objectives

Mitigating Security Risks: Maintaining Business Continuity discover the key concepts covered in this course describe what's meant by business continuity planning (BCP) in the context of managing threats outline what comprises disaster recovery planning and list some types of disaster recovery plans compare business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning outline how business continuity planning helps reduce the impact of a disaster list the steps in the business continuity planning lifecycle that help define an effective business continuity plan define the role of the risk management plan as the first step in business continuity planning (BCP) define the role of business impact analysis as the second step in business continuity planning (BCP) define the role of the incident response plan as the third step in in business continuity planning (BCP) define the role of recovery time objectives in business continuity planning (BCP) define the role of recovery point objectives in business continuity planning (BCP) define the role of the disaster recovery plan as the fourth step in business continuity planning (BCP) compare and contrast a business continuity plan with an emergency action plan recognize the role of the organization in community post-disaster recovery planning outline the steps to building an organization’s business resiliency in the face of a disaster describe using COVID-19 as an example the guidelines and best practices for dealing with and pursuing business excellence during a pandemic summarize the key concepts covered in this course