ICT can sometimes be perceived as a ‘dark art’ that is inaccessible to non-IT staff, but that need not be the case.

The ‘Information and Communications Technology Continuity Management: BS 25777 and Beyond’ course provides Business Continuity Practitioners with a primer in the ICT that underpins Business Continuity. The Course is based on the new BS 25777 Standard, and is designed to equip non-IT specialists with an understanding of how information and communications technology can be exploited to deliver sound business resilience and continuity. 

• Anyone involved in Business Continuity planning and practice, including BC Managers, Facility Managers and those responsible for BC planning
• Practitioners exploring or looking to develop their DR capability, Recovery Sites, Data Vaulting facility or Emergency Call Cascades.
• IT staff that want to understand how ICT continuity underpins business continuity
• BC professionals looking to implement or review their recovery site, infrastructure, Data centre or communications strategies.
• Practitioners considering BS25999 and BS 25777 alignment.

• Introduction to ICT continuity and BS 25777
• The essentials of Disaster Recovery and Resilient Infrastructure
• ICT response and Recovery
• Business Impact, Risk Analysis and Criticality of Business and ICT services
• The concept and practicalities of Recovery Point (RPO) and Time (RTO) Objectives
• The essentials of effective Data Vaulting
• Recovery Centres: what you need to ask your supplier
• Resilient Communications: understanding the best medium for emergency comms
• Call Cascades: Manual and Automated, the steps to make your cascade a success
• Remote access and location independent working, from Virtual networks to cloud solutions
• Security and Information Assurance as relate to BC and DR
• Cooling, power and facility considerations for ICT continuity
• Embedding ICT continuity in the Organisation
• How to exercise ICT continuity
• BS 25777 and BS 2599: How they synergise

• A course slide deck
• Knowledge and understanding of BS 25777 (and how it aligns and supports BS 25999)
• Knowledge of how  ICT continuity should work
• The Key points to ask your Data Vault, Recovery Centre and Call Cascade suppliers
• The confidence that your DR capability will deliver what is required in your Continuity Plan
• A better understanding of how ICT functions and should function in your organisation

This course can be held at our central London location or inhouse from 10am - 4pm:

• Dates are on request

• On request

• Need something different to this?
• Need Tailored one-to-one exercise training?
• Need to train a group on site?

If so, then please contact one of the team on +44(0)207 353 9498 or complete a booking form