The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) is the world’s leading institute for business continuity. Established in 1994, the BCI has established itself as the leading membership and certifying organization for Business Continuity (BC) professionals worldwide. The BCI currently has over 8,000 members in more than 120 countries.

The world has moved in the last 100 years from the first flight into the sky to flights to Mars; there is complete digital control over our lives. Control is by the person or entity who has retrievable custody of our data which can be misused for gains and / or to harm us. What was most prevalent form of societal intimacy during our childhood in 1960s and 1970s, that everything was known about everyone in a neighbourhood; we have come a long way. We are at a stage where we ask - why do you need to know about me? If there is a need with an agreed upon purpose, only sufficient data is provided which satisfies the need with a caveat that the data would not be used for any other purpose.

European Union (EU) has done a commendable job 2 decades back — to protect its citizens from prying eyes, whether harmful or not — through replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive. In parallel, government of India also took commendable steps in this direction through InfoTech Act 2000, which was amended in  2008 with additional safeguards. Though India InfoTech Act is a general purpose all-compassing act, it has sections to protect data privacy strengthened further in 2011. However, both EU GDPR and India InfoTech Act can leverage each other for mutual benefits.

In this Webinar, Pradeep will share various aspects of GDPR and the diversified thoughts looking GDPR as a threat or an opportunity.

GDPR : A Threat or An Opportunity?

Writing Scenarios That Deliver Better Outcomes 

Immediately improve your scenarios with a recognized methodology that engages players and reduces the time and effort to create them.
In this webinar, Robert Pratten, transmedia storyteller and CEO of Conducttr explains:
•How to overcome writer’s block and dive right in!
•How to write scenarios that get players excited and achieve learning goals
•How to reduce the time & effort it takes to go from need to finished exercise.
The approach discussed focuses on crisis simulations for tabletop and live exercises.

Robert Pratten is a thought-leader in transmedia storytelling and author of the popular university textbook Getting Started in Transmedia Storytelling: A Practical Guide for Beginners.
His client list includes the UK MoD, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, VISA, World Bank, Kodansha, Al Jazeera, C-Net Training and Pepsico. He can be found online as @robpratten

Writing Scenarios That Deliver Better Outcomes

This webinar will introduce participants to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2018 Edition, which is the leading global guidance for business continuity and resilience professionals since it was first issued in 2001. Key Objectives: 1.Introducing the Business Continuity Management (BCM) lifecycle that provides a framework to structure the approach to business continuity. 2. An overview of the six professional practices within the BCM lifecycle 3. A review of key changes between the GPG 2013 and the new GPG 2018 Edition. 4. An overview of the BCI CBCI Certification Course based on the GPG 2018 Edition. Who is the webinar for? This webinar is relevant to anyone with a business continuity and resilience related role, which can include, but is not limited to, those working in risk management, information security, physical security, emergency management, facilities management, health and safety, communications and human resources.

Introduction to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2018 Edition, Asia

Join BCI partner One Voice to hear how in collaboration with the Norwegian Government, they created the world’s first integrated national incident and crisis management system, using the industry leading software, CIM. Representatives from the London and Norwegian offices will explain how a variety of software modules are used to help coordinate the response to major events from the top to the bottom of the government structure.

Building a national crisis management system: One Voice and the Norwegian Govt.

BCI partner Everbridge presents the webinar "How to avoid sending false alarms"

The ballistic missile False Alarm alert that occurred in Hawaii recently has underscored the critical role that these systems play in keeping the public informed. To help you understand the risks, we have organized a team of experts who will host a webinar today outlining best practices to help you avoid this type of incident.
The incident had lead many organisations to ask:
•Could a false alarm happen to us?
•What precautions should I take?

HOW TO AVOID SENDING FALSE ALARMS

Businesses are increasingly becoming more reliant on third parties for critical products and services. The factors are multi-fold : increased customer demand, time criticality, stringent service levels, evolving regulatory landscapes, technological advancements, mergers and acquisitions, diversification of risks, etc. With increasing dependencies on third parties, organizations become susceptible to major service disruptions owing to lack of supplier resilience; thus, running into risks such as loss of revenues, regulatory breaches, service level misses and eventually, loss of customer confidence. Supply Chain Resiliency is the key to sustained business model and must be integrated within the resilience or business continuity framework of organizations.

This session will reflect upon a few key trends, levers, risks, regulatory requirements and overview of building third party business continuity assessment process.

Supply Chain Resiliency

This webinar will introduce participants to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2018 Edition, which is the leading global guidance for business continuity and resilience professionals since it was first issued in 2001. 

Key Objectives:
 
1.Introducing the Business Continuity Management (BCM) lifecycle that provides a framework to structure the approach to business continuity. 
2. An overview of the six professional practices within the BCM lifecycle 
3. A review of key changes between the GPG 2013 and the new GPG 2018 Edition.
4. An overview of the BCI CBCI Certification Course based on the GPG 2018 Edition. 

Who is the webinar for? 

This webinar is relevant to anyone with a business continuity and resilience related role, which can include, but is not limited to, those working in risk management, information security, physical security, emergency management, facilities management, health and safety, communications and human resources.

Introduction to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2018 Edition

Discover the results of the Horizon Scan report 2018. This live webinar is your opportunity to discover the results. 

Join BSI Global Product Champion, John DiMaria, and the BCI report author Gianluca Riglietti, who will reveal: 

okey findings from the 2018 report
othe perceived short and long-term business threats
ohow continuity professionals prepare for disruptions 
oour thoughts on the increasing importance and role of business continuity in developing a resilient organization 

Plus you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions to the hosts and share your views on the report.

BCI Horizon Scan Report 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). The session is an introduction to what are some of the key regulations that are being introduced.

GDPR Introduction

Business Continuity Management in an international travel group: when holiday paradise turns into a disaster site. 

Business Continuity Management (BCM) protects organizations from the impacts of business disruptions. Threats may originate from various origins and may hit an organization without their fault. Effective protection is achieved by following established methodologies such as the BCI Good Practice Guidelines and/or international standards – providing a predetermined level of operation during a crisis.
Within the tourism industry, much higher requirements prevail: on top of the classic requirement to protect the organization, it has the responsibility to care for the wellbeing of their travelling customers. The focus in on those travelers who already being on their journey. These requirements dictate that two intertwined projects need to be realized, significantly increasing the complexity of the BCM approach.

Business Continuity Management in an international travel group

You cannot see in total light or total darkness; there will always be shades of grey. This webinar will explore the relationship between business continuity and organisational resilience by addressing key issues such as:

-At what level of authority and influence in the organisation (if any) is there oversight of all the resilience activities so that synergies can be exploited, unnecessary redundancies eliminated and duplication avoided?

-How and how often do the managers of these disciplines talk to each other about the combined contribution of their separate programmes that support organisational resilience? 

-How is the personal resilience of individuals being developed so they will be able to perform their roles and responsibilities in the event of a disruption?

-What value does the validation phase (exercising and audit) add to resilience programmes?
This webinar will provide an overview of the business continuity life cycle and suggest the needs to integrate this capability with wider organisation resilience activities. This supports a cyclical and ongoing discipline consistent with our understanding of organisational resilience as an evolution, not a “fix”.

It’s Not Either Or … It’s Both & More

What does the future hold for the BCI? 
Discover with David Thorp, Executive Director of the BCI, how the leading institute for business continuity and resilience plans to contribute towards shaping the future of the business continuity and resilience industry. 
How will it widen its international network of professionals and organizations, and further develop thought leadership, research, and resources for the benefit of the business continuity and resilience community. 
This webinar will allow you to ask the questions that are most important to you, and have a first look of the BCI’s upcoming changes.

Q&A with David Thorp - Executive Director of the BCI

One would think that catastrophic incidents of global proportions would cause organizations globally to exercise extra vigilance in ensuring that these events do not recur, particularly in their proverbial back yards!

Surprisingly, as we continue to analyze events which have caused untold damage and disruption to organizations, we have to ask ourselves; are they becoming less frequent and why do we seem to see history repeating itself?

Once bitten Twice Shy – (Maybe)!

The BCI Cyber Resilience Report is an analysis of cyber security incidents experienced by organizations across the world, and how they respond to them. These types of incidents are not rare occurrences with two-thirds of organizations experiencing at least one disruption during the previous year, while 15% report at least ten. Furthermore, one third of respondents report cumulative losses in excess of €50,000, while 13% put this figure in excess of €250,000.

BCI Cyber Resilience Report 2017

Chris and Gordon argue that a lasting tendency to focus on outdated or improbable threats, risks alienating millennials and may even de-value the BC profession in the future. Take, for example, loss of staff due to a winning lottery syndicate, or even the ever-prominent focus on loss of premises. Whilst we cannot rule out any eventuality, is this really the kind of subject matter that will excite prospective millennial BC professionals? 
Talking from their own experience and looking at the 2017 BCI Horizon Scan Report, they discuss the current threat landscape, arguing that with growing digitalisation and increased cyber risks, never before has there been such exciting prospects for young people in BC.

Out with the old, in with the new: changing perceptions of Business Continuity.

This webinar will enter the current “BIA Controversy” with a description of what works….and what doesn’t.
I learned in 1991 what makes a BIA “not work” when my team and I had to deal with a BIA report that had covered all sites of a global firm..  Key characteristics:  it took over 2 years to complete and had cost nearly half a million dollars, did not provide a basis for building a plan, and much of the information was out of date. So I made a few common-sense process changes that made all the difference in going forward to complete useful plans in a reasonable time-frame.

The “Good” BIA

This session is about thinking and planning outside your own organization boundaries as well as inside.  
I will use the ‘Great semolina disaster of Yarmouth’ as a case study, looking at what you might reasonably be expected to foresee, and why sharing plans is a good thing.  I will also look at some case studies that changed the focus of regulators, who have become increasingly concerned about interdependencies between organizations.
I will then look at what needs to be done to make sure you are working in the right way with the right third parties.

Third Party Dependencies and semolina

This webinar discusses how to leverage auditing skills, particularly IT auditing, to improve BC and DR programs.  We will discuss how to design BC/DR controls, examine and analyze them in existing BC/DR programs, and prepare work papers that summarize the audit results.  One of the key components of the ISO BC and DR standards is reviewing and auditing BC management systems and DR programs to ensure they are compliant with standards and good practice.  We will refer to ISO 22301:2012 and ISO 27031:2011, as well as the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines, in the course of the presentation.

How to Improve BC/DR Programs by Auditing

Business continuity professionals often face the challenge of demonstrating the value of business continuity in their organisation. Join our panel of BC professionals and subject matter experts as they discuss how a unified critical communications platform can derive additional value. This webinar will cover topics such as crisis event management, unplanned IT outages, business communications, information and physical security, data breaches and more. It will also demonstrate how these activities can raise the profile of the business continuity team.

The power of unified communications in driving return on investment

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The unexpected nature of natural disasters and other disruptive events means that preparation is key to managing disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Join the business continuity and disaster recovery community for live and recorded presentations discussing best practices for business continuity planning, disaster recovery programs and business continuity management. Learn from BCDR experts to develop your critical infrastructure and gain insight into tactical solutions to your BCDR issues.

Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

As an IT professional, many of the problems you face are multifaceted, complex and don’t lend themselves to simple solutions. The information technology community features useful and free information technology resources. Join to browse thousands of videos and webinars on ITIL best practices, IT security strategy and more presented by leading CTOs, CIOs and other technology experts.

Information Technology

In today’s economic climate, successful small businesses need to overcome an array of challenges. Client dependence, legal issues, small business financing… as an entrepreneur, where can you find the information you need to help inform your decisions? In the small business management community, discover how you can create a successful small business from the business plan up!

Small Business

Leadership styles are continually evolving to incorporate new ways of thinking about employee satisfaction, motivation and performance. Find webinars and videos on the strategies, techniques and qualities that make an effective leader. By participating in this community you will gain insight into current leadership theories and how to optimize employee performance.

Leadership

In the business management community, commercial experts will be sharing webinars and videos on an array of subjects. From sales and marketing, to finance, productivity and growth, this content will help you stay up-to-date with the current economic environment and provide timely management insight to drive business growth.

The power of unified communications in driving return on investment

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