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ISO 22301 Business Continuity Lead Implementer

Implement a business continuity management system that keeps critical services running through disruption.

  • 4 days (32 training hours)
  • Live Virtual / In-House
  • Verifiable certificate

Course overview

This course guides participants through implementing a business continuity management system to ISO 22301:2019, from scoping and business impact analysis to strategies, plans and exercising, drawing on the guidance in ISO 22313 and ISO/TS 22317.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the requirements of ISO 22301:2019
  • Conduct a business impact analysis and set RTOs and RPOs
  • Assess risks of disruption to prioritised activities
  • Select continuity and recovery strategies
  • Write incident response and business continuity plans
  • Plan and run exercises and use the results to improve

Benefits

For you

  • Lead a continuity programme from scoping to certification
  • Templates for BIA, plans and exercise reports
  • A verifiable Vander certificate

For your organisation

  • Faster, coordinated recovery from incidents and outages
  • Evidence of resilience for regulators, customers and insurers
  • Alignment with ISO/IEC 27001 availability controls

Course content

  1. Day 1

    Context and requirements

    ISO 22301 structure, scope, leadership, policy and legal requirements.

  2. Day 2

    Analysis

    Business impact analysis, risk assessment, RTO and RPO setting.

  3. Day 3

    Strategies and plans

    Continuity strategies, incident response structure, plan writing and communications.

  4. Day 4

    Exercising and improvement

    Exercise design, tabletop simulation, performance evaluation, internal audit and assessment.

Who should attend

  • Business continuity and resilience managers
  • IT and information security managers
  • Operations and risk managers

Prerequisites

General management experience. No prior continuity experience required.

Assessment & certification

A tabletop exercise and written assessment. Successful participants receive a Vander certificate for 32 training hours with a unique, verifiable certificate ID.

How certificate verification works