Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Understanding and Maintaining Resilience through Effective Risk Management and Planning
| Date | Venue | Fees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08 - 12 Dec 2025 | London, UK | $5,950 | › |
| 11 - 15 May 2026 | Barcelona, Spain | $5,950 | › |
| 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | $5,950 | › |
| 07 - 11 Dec 2026 | London, UK | $5,950 | › |
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
Objectives
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.
Organisational Impact
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
Personal Impact
The participants will gain or enhance their understanding of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance. At the conclusion of this training course, you will have the knowledge to:
- Actively understand IT resilience
- Understand the cyber security threat landscape
- Support IT risk assessments and audits
- Track and analyse key risk metrics
- Support development of business continuity and disaster recovery plan
- Actively participate in enterprise risk management
Who should Attend?
This GLOMACS Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) training course is designed for all the people involved in business operations, analysts, those involved in cybersecurity, management, project management and auditing.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Senior Analysts
- Risk Managers
- IT Auditors
- Operations Managers
- Finance/Budget Decision Makers
- Legal Counsellors/Advisors
- Resilience Professionals
- Those with limited IT Knowledge
- 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
Introduction to Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS)
IT Disaster Recovery Planning
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Fundamentals
Integrating BCMS & ERM
Organizational Resilience
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.
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