Business Continuity Training DVDs


The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has produced two Business Continuity training DVDs:

Practice Makes Perfect: exercising made easy – a comprehensive guide to exercising Business Continuity plans

and

Understanding Your Business: How to do a Business Impact Analysis.

Both videos and accompanying CDs have been structured around the BCI Good Practice Guidelines and the BS25999 standard.

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Understanding Your Business: How to do a Business Impact Analysis – Training DVD

This 20 minute original film, complemented by a data CD, takes the viewer through the essential elements of a BIA: what it is; how to get management “buy in” and how to conduct a BIA.

The training film – based in a hotel – takes the viewer on an information gathering journey through the eyes of Ed, the lead character. We see Ed conducting his BIA in this familiar setting, providing the viewer with a clear and usable analogy.

The CD that accompanies the film contains a comprehensive questionnaire with a set of templates and guidance notes together with expert industry advice.

CD Contents:

  • A word booklet containing a step by step guide to undertaking a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) including:
    • Understanding your business as part of the BCM lifecycle
    • What is a BIA?
    • The purpose of a BIA
    • The motivation for BCM and the sponsor
    • Establishing the scope
    • Methods and Techniques for Collecting Data
    • Determining how results will be used
    • Gathering and verifying your results
    • Identifying Respondents
  • BIA questionnaire template with notes
  • Sign and Review template
  • FAQs
  • Risk Assessments and the BIA with template

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Practice Makes Perfect: exercising made easy – a comprehensive guide to exercising Business Continuity plans – Training DVD

Using a theatrical analogy, this clear, concise, and visually interesting 20 minute film demonstrates how performance (BC plan) is rehearsed – from simple desk top exercising through to more complex scenarios. The film is engaging and achieves a robust mix of practical training and engaging drama viewed through the eyes of a BCM Practitioner.

The accompanying CD contains a 2,700 word booklet detailing a step-by-step guide to exercising with templates; a guide to creating exercise scenarios; role-play scripts and debrief notes.

CD Contents:

  • Annex A Main Event List
  • BCI Booklet
  • Creating Your Own Scenario
  • Debrief Template
  • Exercise Invitation Template
  • Exercise Manager’s Notes
  • Fire Scenario
  • Glossary
  • Injects Template for Role‐Players
  • Scripts Flood
  • BSI Folder
  • BS 25999 Product Sheet
  • BS 25999 A4 Advertisement for BSIDVD
  • BS 25999 Global Product Guide
  • BS 25999 Part 2 and Certification for BCI Continuity Magazine
  • BSI Management Systems profile for BCIDVD
  • About BCI
  • About Ear Productions BC

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L.A. Nuclear Drill Tests Countywide HAZMAT System


Representatives from the largest operational area in the third largest U.S. state gathered Wednesday, July 28, 2010 to participate in the mock detonation of a 10-kiloton improvised nuclear device.

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Mitigating Risks of the IT Disaster Recovery Test


The IT Disaster Recovery Test as part of the Business Continuity testing is becoming an annual event for most IT departments. It is mandated by a lot of regulators, nearly insisted upon by internal audit and of course a very healthy thing to do.

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AT&T Recovery Exercise to Simulate San Jose Network Disaster


Communications is always a top priority in the drama that unfolds when natural or manmade disaster strikes and puts lives, property and business assets at risk. With that in mind, AT&T, working with local officials and business leaders, is conducting a full-scale disaster recovery simulation – a Network Disaster Recovery exercise – in San Jose, California from July 7 to July 16, 2010 near the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose.

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Disaster Recovery Test Results and What to Do With Them


With respect to using a formal process for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery testing, unless your company is in a regulated industry or is at the top of a supply chain where some vendors are extremely critical, Chad Goode  recommends taking time to understand the fundamental concepts of root cause analysis and then modify the steps to fit your own company culture and existing processes.

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Before disaster strikes, test your recovery plan


Would you be able to access your software if a flood or tornado wiped out your office?

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Testing vs. Exercising- What’s the Difference?


The terms ‘testing’ and ‘exercising’ are often used interchangeably in the context of business continuity. Yet, they have very different meanings and purposes.

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AT&T Recovery Exercise To Simulate Metro Detroit Network Disaster


Communications is always cited as priority number one in the drama that unfolds when natural or manmade disaster strikes and puts lives, property, and business assets at risk. With that in mind, AT&T, working with local officials and business leaders, is conducting a full-scale disaster recovery simulation – a Network Disaster Recovery Exercise – in the Metro Detroit area from May 6 to May 14, 2010 near The Dearborn Inn.

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When should you start your exercise program?


The conventional approach to exercising or testing a contingency plan is to begin once the plan (or a major segment) is completed. I submit that there are compelling advantages to starting the program much sooner.

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Disaster recovery plan testing primer: Test to fail


According to many standards institutions and organizations that focus on disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC), disaster recovery plan testing will often result in the continued success and operations of a business, even in times of a disaster.

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Surprise Testing – is it worth the gamble?


There is no question that “surprise testing” could be dangerous to an enterprise. Is it worth the gamble?

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