An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Understanding and Maintaining Resilience through Effective Risk Management and Planning

08 - 12 Dec 2025

London

| $5950

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Introduction

This Business Continuity Management System & Enterprise Risk Management training course offers attendees a comprehensive primer on optimizing IT risk management and organisational resilience. Participants will gain a clear understanding of business continuity management and disaster recovery concepts that enhance strategic IT decision-making in support of business objectives. This training course will demystify IT security and risk management concepts.

Core focus areas include translating business resilience into practice, managing IT-related risks, ensuring legal/regulatory compliance, and supporting operational activities. Participants will be equipped with knowledge to support the creation business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response plans whilst understanding enterprise risk management. Course completion provides the knowledge necessary to improve IT resilience, build trust with partners, demonstrate transparency to stakeholders, and ultimately catalyse achievement of overarching enterprise risk management.

This GLOMACS Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) training course will highlight:

How to effectively integrate BCMS & ERM
IT cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, risk assessment and mitigation
IT incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery
Most significant IT governance, risk and compliance standards
The basic principles of information security

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) training course, you will learn to:

Develop skills in identifying and combating threats related to IT security
Learn about the whole range of cyber security risks, issues, and threats and how to put effective controls and solutions in place
Develop business continuity, disaster recovery plans
Understand how to manage define Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and related contingency plans
Improve working knowledge, global industry standards and best practices in IT governance

Training Methodology

Participants to this Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) training course will receive a thorough training using several techniques that include coverage of material, discussions, breakout exercises, videos, and tests. The hands-on breakout exercises will be performed in groups and will enable participants to apply the material to real world scenarios with active discussions with other members of the group. Pre-tests and post-tests will measure what was learned in this training course.

Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Who Should Attend?

The organization will benefit from understanding the principles and how effective IT governance, risk management, and compliance can be implemented and how it provides multiple benefits:

Improved alignment between IT functions and business objectives
Reduced IT-related operational and regulatory risks
Optimisation of resource capability during an incident
Increase organisational resilience
Enhanced trust and confidence with customers/partners
Overall support for meeting strategic goals

Learning Journey Breakdown

Overview of business continuity concepts
BCMS standards (ISO 22301)
Developing a BCMS strategy and policy
Threats: Cyberattacks, data breaches, natural disasters
Controls: Backup strategies, emergency response plans, access controls

IT disaster scenarios - hacking, malware, network outages
Recovery time and point objectives
IT disaster recovery plans and procedures
Threats: Unplanned IT outages, systems failure
Controls: Redundant infrastructure, offsite backups

Key principles and ERM framework elements
Risk identification and assessment methods
Risk treatment and mitigation strategies
Threats: Supply chain disruptions, governance issues
Controls: Business continuity plans, risk monitoring

Aligning BCMS and ERM programs
Business impact analysis and risk scenarios
IT asset management and risk registries
Threats: Failed internal processes and controls
Controls: IT asset management, internal audits

Embedding continuity across the organization
Incident response planning and testing
Crisis communications
Threats: Skills shortages, leadership gaps
Controls: Awareness training, crisis simulations

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