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If you are complying with BS25999, then buy the BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit before the 25th November and receive:

• Two additional guides FREE
• Exclusive access to view the Business Continuity webinar, hosted by prestigious BC authors!

The BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit contains everything you need to comply with BS25999, the best-practice standard for certifying business continuity management plans. This toolkit will enable you to quickly and effectively implement a BCMS, providing you documents which you can easily tailor to your business.

	BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit Price: £395.00
	Buy the BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit before the 25th November and receive two additional guides FREE, and exclusive access to the BC webinar! >>

This toolkit special offer contains:

• Document templates for everything that the BS25999 sets out for a BCMS to contain
• Email drafting support
• BS25999 A Pocket Guide
• Business Continuity and BS25999: A Combined Glossary
• Business Continuity Management: a Manager’s Guide to BS25999
• Coping with Unplanned Absences
• The Route To Business Continuity
• Exclusive access to the Business Contintuity webinar, hosted by prestigious BC authors

Buy the BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit before the 25th November and receive two additional guides FREE and exclusive access to the Business Continuity webinar!

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All businesses have to be aware of, and mitigate against, the threats and risks to their business. These risks could include natural disasters, economic factors, IT failures, civil unrest, terrorism, cyber crime, the list goes on. Therefore, it is essential that you have a business continuity plan in order to recover from an unforeseen event.

BS25999 is the business continuity standard that defines the specification and best practice guidelines to develop an effective Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). This toolkit will help you quickly and cost-effectively create a BCMS in line with BS25999.

	BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit Special Offer Price: £395
	Until Monday November 21st this toolkit contains 2 free guides ‘Coping With Unplanned Absences’ and ‘The Route To Business Continuity’

This toolkit contains all the tools and documentation templates that a business continuity manager will need to implement a BCMS BS25999 project. The toolkit also includes 12 months of drafting support and 12 months of automatic updates.

Demonstrate to your customers and stakeholders that you could continue trading in the event of an unforeseen disruption by creating a BS25999 BCMS with this toolkit.

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The official countdown to our first webinar has started now and in exactly 24 hours we will join Kurt Engemann and Doug Henderson in their inspiring presentation on strengthening organisational resilience.

So, if you haven’t done so, this is your last chance to register for this fantastic webinar. We know you dont’ want to miss out!

FREE WEBINAR: Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience – Thursday 10th November, 4pm GMT

Don’t miss out – Register for the webinar now!

During the webinar, we’ll discuss:

• Book and Presentation Overview
• Business Continuity and Risk Management
• Business Impact Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Modeling
• Risk Treatment
• Strategies
• Action Steps

See you there!

The Speakers

	Kurt J. Engemann, PhD, CBCP Kurt is the Director of the Center for Business Continuity and Risk Management and Professor of Information Systems in the Hagan School of Business at Iona College. He has consulted professionally over the past thirty years in the area of risk management decision modeling for major organisations and has been an instrumental part in the development and implementation of comprehensive business continuity management programs. He is also a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with the Disaster Recovery Institute International.

	Douglas M. Henderson, FSA, CBCP Douglas is a President of Disaster Management, Inc., and has 25 years of experience in the management and human resources fields with major consulting firms. In August of 1992, Doug was the key associate of the Emergency Management Team for a consulting firm located in South Miami-Dade County. Inspired by the real life experience with Hurricane Andrew and the lack of preparation within the business and academic communities, Doug founded Disaster Management, Inc.

Register for the webinar now!

Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience webinar is brought to you by IT Governance and is first out of three in the series of our winter webinar series.

Upcoming webinars:

• ITIL: Better LITE than never by Malcolm Fry – Thursday 17th November, 4pm GMT
• PRINCE2 for Small Projects by Colin Bentley, Thursday 1st December, 4pm GMT

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Business continuity planning can be a difficult task. Assessing all the risks and threats to your organisation and then developing a coherent plan that will ensure you can continue trading and recover quickly from the worst-case scenario is often daunting.

You need a robust business continuity plan that will ensure you:

• Have mitigated against risk
• Put in place controls to reduce risks to an acceptable level
• Accept risks which the company can absorb (your risk appetite)

This is where the BS25999 BCMS Implementation toolkit comes in. This toolkit helps organisations create a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) that is aligned with BS25999 – the best practise standard for a BCMS. It provides all the guidance, tools and documents you need to execute your own project.

	BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit Special Offer Price: £395.00
	Until 21 November this toolkit comes with 2 free guides!

This toolkit will ensure you create an effective business management system aligned with BS25999. This toolkit:

• Provides you with the knowledge to understand what level of business continuity is appropriate for your organisation
• Provides all the requisite documents (a BCM policy, a risk assessment, business impact analysis and many more) you need for a BS25999 BCMS
• Comes with 12 months support and drafting service – assisting you when you have any problems with the documentation
• Until 21 November comes with 2 free guides ‘Coping With Unplanned Absences’ and ‘The Route to Business Continuity’

This toolkit will save you days of work by avoiding costly dead ends and trial and error processes. With this toolkit, you can ensure you have an effective business continuity plan suitable for your organisation.

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Based on Kurt Engemann’s and Douglas M. Henderson’s best-selling title, Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience, this webinar will cover in depth the principles and practices of business continuity and risk management, providing the foundations in the IT, emergency management and risk modeling aspects of these subjects.

FREE WEBINAR: Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience – Thursday 10th November, 4pm GMT

Register for the webinar now!

During the webinar, we’ll discuss:

• Book and Presentation Overview
• Business Continuity and Risk Management
• Business Impact Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Modeling
• Risk Treatment
• Strategies
• Action Steps

See you there!

The Speakers

	Kurt J. Engemann, PhD, CBCP Kurt is the Director of the Center for Business Continuity and Risk Management and Professor of Information Systems in the Hagan School of Business at Iona College. He has consulted professionally over the past thirty years in the area of risk management decision modeling for major organisations and has been an instrumental part in the development and implementation of comprehensive business continuity management programs. He is also a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with the Disaster Recovery Institute International.

	Douglas M. Henderson, FSA, CBCP Douglas is a President of Disaster Management, Inc., and has 25 years of experience in the management and human resources fields with major consulting firms. In August of 1992, Doug was the key associate of the Emergency Management Team for a consulting firm located in South Miami-Dade County. Inspired by the real life experience with Hurricane Andrew and the lack of preparation within the business and academic communities, Doug founded Disaster Management, Inc.

Register for the webinar now!

Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience webinar is brought to you by IT Governance and is first out of three in the series of our winter webinar series.

Upcoming webinars:

• ITIL: Better LITE than never by Malcolm Fry – Thursday 10th November, 4pm GMT
• PRINCE2 for Small Projects by Colin Bentley – Thursday 1st December, 4pm GMT

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Free Webinars From IT Governance

Often the practices of business continuity and risk management are considered to be the same thing. They are not! This webinar details how both are similar in principle but have very different goals in application.

Based on Kurt Engemann’s and Douglas M. Henderson’s best-selling title, Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience, this webinar will cover in depth the principles and practices of business continuity and risk management, providing the foundations in the IT, emergency management and risk modeling aspects of these subjects.

FREE WEBINAR: Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience

Register for the webinar now!

During the webinar, we’ll discuss:

• Book and Presentation Overview
• Business Continuity and Risk Management
• Business Impact Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Modeling
• Risk Treatment
• Strategies
• Action Steps

See you there!

The Speakers

	Kurt J. Engemann, PhD, CBCPKurt is the Director of the Center for Business Continuity and Risk Management and Professor of Information Systems in the Hagan School of Business at Iona College. He has consulted professionally over the past thirty years in the area of risk management decision modeling for major organisations and has been an instrumental part in the development and implementation of comprehensive business continuity management programs. He is also a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with the Disaster Recovery Institute International.

	Douglas M. Henderson, FSA, CBCPDouglas is a President of Disaster Management, Inc., and has 25 years of experience in the management and human resources fields with major consulting firms. In August of 1992, Doug was the key associate of the Emergency Management Team for a consulting firm located in South Miami-Dade County. Inspired by the real life experience with Hurricane Andrew and the lack of preparation within the business and academic communities, Doug founded Disaster Management, Inc.

Register for the webinar now!

Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organisational Resilience webinar is brought to you by IT Governance and is first out of three in the series of our winter webinar series.

Upcoming webinars:

• Better LITE than never by Malcolm Fry
• PRINCE2 for Small Projects by Colin Bentley

Register for all three webinars now >>

All organisations face business continuity risks. Therefore it is critical that you have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

With this toolkit you can implement a BS25999 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) quickly and cost-effectively.

Until the end of October this fantastic toolkit comes with 2 free guides including the best-selling The Route To Business Continuity

	BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit Special Offer Our Price: £395.00

BS25999 is the business continuity standard which all organisations should align themselves with. This toolkit provides all the tools and templates which will enable you to implement your own BS25999 BCMS.

Buy today before this offer runs out >>>