Business Continuity Planning (BCP) - Best

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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) - Best Practices and Challenges June 24, 2020 About the Speaker – Dhiraj Lal Over 32 years in the industry. Ex BCM Sponsor and Head of American Express. Mix of experience as Practitioner, Trainer, and Consultant . BCI Approved Instructor. Over 15 years in BCM and related domains. Contributing Author to : The Encyclopaedia of Business Continuity, 3rd Edition Author of: Step by Step guide AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2015. Implement BCM the UAE Way! Dhiraj Lal, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CONTINUITY & RESILIENCE (CORE) MBCI, CBCP, CBCI, ISO 22301 Technical Expert, CISA, ITIL, ISO 31000, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor A Chemical Engineer from IIT Delhi and MBA from IIM Calcutta, , Dhiraj Lal has over 20 years BCM experience and 32 years overall. He has worked with Citibank, Standard Chartered, Agilent and American Express, where he was the Program Sponsor and BCM Head. He is Asia’s first BSI appointed Technical Expert for BS25999/ ISO 22301, and assessed 2 of the top 10 certified organizations globally. He teaches and consults in BCM (NCEMA 7000/ ISO 22301) and related domains. He has been invited to present at the BCI Annul conference in the UK, DRI US, BCMI Singapore, itSMF UK, DRI Asia in Malaysia, ISACA UAE, KSA and India, and also various Middle East Crisis, BCM and IT Resilience Summits in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, KSA and India About Continuity & Resilience ISO 22301 Certified Management Consulting Firm Business Continuity Management Crisis Management IT Disaster Recovery Information Security Cyber Security Risk Management We Consult / Train / Assess and Certify in these domains We provide advisory services Automation tools – BCM/ ITDR/ Mass Communication Workplace recovery E-Learning Agenda Business Continuity Planning Business Continuity Implementation Roadmap BCP in times of COVID-19 Challenges and Best Practices Business Continuity Planning “Planning to to continue the Business” Not a new concept. A fancy name for common sense. In reality, we have been performing Business Continuity Planning for centuries But still, many organizations struggled to restart operations during COVID-19 So we need more than just common sense. We need a structured and formal implementation of common sense. What we do not fully do in BAU common sense Agree timelines, worst case and best case (MTPD and RTO) Base it fully on facts and data (consequences of downtime) Consultative process involving all interested parties Comprehensive, documented and signed off Communicate to all who need to know, including relevant third