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How to Develop a Successful Business Continuity Audit Program that Will Help Ensure Your Program is Compliant and Effective
- What should be included in a business continuity audit
- Setting controls
- Which regulations and standards apply to business continuity audits
- Examining evidence about the performance of activities
- Verifying measures to ensure continuity
- Evaluating quality vs. a general template
Overview of the webinar
Successful business continuity planning :
- Involves the entire organization
- Requires clear and consistent communication
- Encompasses how employees will communicate, where they will go and how they will keep doing their jobs
- Prepares the organization for disruptive events
Why is a Business Continuity Program Important?
- 61% of companies surveyed had to invoke their BCP
- 43% had to invoke it more than once
- Key Causes: Natural Disaster, Power Outage, IT Failure, Flood, Fire, Telecom Failure, Utility Outage, Pandemic
What were the top 3 lessons learned from invocation?
- There had not been enough training and awareness efforts across the company
- 48% Plans didn’t adequately address emergency communications
- 37% Key staff had not been included in testing; as a result, they did not know their roles and responsibilities in the plans
- 25% Cyberattacks
Who should attend?
- Auditors
- Business Continuity Planners
- Business Continuity Team members
- Disaster Recovery professionals
Why should you attend?
ISO 22301 is a great standard to plan against and to audit against even if an organization does not plan on becoming ISO Certified. I will cover the lifecycle of auditing a Business Continuity Program, with specific emphasis on the following areas:
- Understand what’s involved in a full BCP Program (for those that are unfamiliar)
- Provide insights based upon field experience that can be applied to Internal Audit work and BCP program work
- Provide you with tools that you can bring back to your company to improve upon BCP programs
- Improve ability to audit BCP programs and provide targeted recommendations
Faculty - Dr.Michael C. Redmond
Ms. Michael C. Redmond specializes in Business Continuity Management, Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Information Security, Business Processes Reorganization, Management Processing, and Regulatory Compliance. Regulatory Compliance includes: FFIEC, Sarbanes Oxley, Patriot, HIPPA, UCC, Basal Accord, and NFPA 1600, NYSE's version, known as Rule 446, and the NASD's Rules 3510 and 3520 and others. She is the CEO of Redmond Worldwide “Enterprise Solutions That Work”sm.
Ms. Redmond has extensive knowledge in Enterprise Risk Management. She has experience in developing and implementing systematic availability programs, post-event operations, and streamlining operations through availability and contingency planning. Ms. Redmond has done many performed as an Internal Auditor in a consulting capacity for many firms Enterprise Risk Programs. She has done Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Projects for many Universities, Corporations, Government Agencies and the US Military. Ms. Redmond has experience with various applications including, Banking Systems, Financial Applications, Accounting Systems, Payments, Payroll, and Pensions as well as Network Recovery, Telecom Recovery and other areas of technology. Ms. Redmond has prepared Business Continuity Plans for such Data Centers with such technologies as mainframes, local area networks, systems and application software, and telecommunications systems. She has been involved with retrofitting and reconfiguring Data Centers to serve as Hot Sites. She has conducted both Physical Security and Building reviews for facilities. She has consulted for entities in the area of availability planning, specifically relating to End-to-End, Content and Architecture. Ms. Redmond has consulted for a variety of industries including: Financial Institutions, Trading Operations, Manufacturing, Utilities, Educational Facilities, Government Agencies and the Military.