Reduce avoidable variation in how continuity plan testing is carried out across teams.
Periodically Testing and Updating Business Continuity Plans
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run continuity plan testing properly.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Insider risk in continuity plan testing is uncomfortable to discuss and expensive to ignore. The value of preparation for this part of corporate security practice is only visible on the day it is needed. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this strand of corporate security practice has actually achieved. The course gives participants a defensible structure for continuity plan testing and the judgement to adapt it. Participants who influence the wider corporate security practice agenda without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the corporate security practice capability is rarely technical. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of continuity plan testing and supervised application. Buying a tool rarely fixes this aspect of corporate security practice; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the wider corporate security practice agenda survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish access control and identity verification appropriate to continuity plan testing.
Anticipate the objections that continuity plan testing will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Address insider risk and personnel vetting relevant to continuity plan testing.
Build the reporting on continuity plan testing that senior management can act on.
Design layered controls for continuity plan testing across deterrence, detection, delay and response.
Diagnose whether a problem in continuity plan testing is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Who Should Attend
Quality staff verifying that continuity plan testing performs as designed.
Guard force supervisors delivering continuity plan testing.
Information security staff whose remit overlaps continuity plan testing.
Team leaders and supervisors who put continuity plan testing into practice day to day.
Investigation and loss prevention specialists working on continuity plan testing.
Contract managers overseeing outsourced security in continuity plan testing.
Course Modules
Continuity plan testing: surveillance, monitoring and control rooms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making the investment case for continuity plan testing
- Report on continuity plan testing in terms that support an investment decision.
- Confirm recorded material from continuity plan testing is retained long enough to be useful.
- Check that controls on continuity plan testing cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.
- Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to continuity plan testing.
Session 2Access control on continuity plan testing that people do not bypass
- Check guard force instructions for continuity plan testing are current and understood.
- Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for continuity plan testing.
- Set escalation thresholds for continuity plan testing that work out of hours.
- Rehearse the briefing on continuity plan testing that would follow an incident.
Continuity plan testing: incident response and escalation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The first fifteen minutes of an incident involving continuity plan testing
- Agree the indicators that will show whether continuity plan testing is improving.
- Assess contractor and third-party exposure within continuity plan testing.
- Establish the boundary of continuity plan testing and record what sits outside it.
- Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to continuity plan testing.
Session 2The cost of continuity plan testing and how to present it
- Build the internal briefing that explains continuity plan testing to those affected.
- Benchmark the organisation's continuity plan testing against comparable operations.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to continuity plan testing will be introduced.
- Define acceptance criteria for continuity plan testing in advance.
Continuity plan testing: threat assessment and intelligence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Layering controls on continuity plan testing so one failure is not fatal
- Confirm access control on continuity plan testing cannot be routinely bypassed.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of continuity plan testing current.
- Review continuity plan testing after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
- Coordinate arrangements for continuity plan testing with civil defence and police in advance.
Session 2The paperwork for continuity plan testing that is actually needed
- Define the first response actions for an incident involving continuity plan testing.
- Arrange the handover of continuity plan testing so capability survives staff changes.
- Name a single owner for each element of continuity plan testing.
- Compare the cost of continuity plan testing with the cost of its absence.
Continuity plan testing: procedures, access control and identity
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Surveillance on continuity plan testing that supports an investigation later
- Agree the smallest change to continuity plan testing that would be visibly useful.
- Set escalation criteria and out-of-hours contacts for continuity plan testing.
- Identify where judgement in continuity plan testing is legitimate and where it is not.
- Build the threat picture for continuity plan testing from sources relevant to this site and sector.
Session 2Reading the current state of continuity plan testing honestly
- Supervise and spot-check performance on continuity plan testing rather than relying on reports.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates continuity plan testing is under control.
- Set the review interval for continuity plan testing and who attends.
- Exercise the plan for continuity plan testing under realistic conditions and record failures.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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