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Will your current Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Plan really do the job?

With the ever increasing operational risks, many UK private and public sector organisations have developed a Business Continuity or Disaster Plan to enable them to recover from the disruption caused by an unforeseen event. These risks are many and complex and include natural disasters, economic factors, IT failure, civil emergencies, terrorism and cybercrime.

But given the growth in Business Continuity Planning, why do so many businesses (large and small) still fail to recover?

The experience of our Business Continuity consultants has shown that many Business Continuity plans fail as a result of the following:

• Inadequate planning with insufficient details
• Lack of consideration of the complete needs of an organisation
• Inadequate testing or practice drills
• Failure to gain support from senior-level managers and directors

BS25999, the Business Continuity Standard defines the specification and best practice guidelines to develop an effective Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).

To ensure your organisation adopts best practice and becomes fully complaint to BS25999, we would like to invite you to book on the 2- day BS25999 Certified BCMS Lead Implementer training course at a special discounted rate of £750 + VAT.

	BS25999 Certified BCMS Lead Implementer Training Course 26-27 January 2012 in London RRP: £995.00 Price: £750 You Save: £245.00

‘The Storm’ can be many things to many organisations and can include anything from the financial crises to Cybercrime and natuaral disasters. Rather than just surviving this year, why not take a risk based approach and put plans in place to thrive instead?

If you’re responsible for ensuring that your organisation responds to and survives any form of disaster – from an IT service discontinuity to a major act of nature – this Masterclass covers all the key steps in using BS25999 best practice for your business continuity arrangements.

	BS25999 Certified BCMS Lead Implementer Masterclass 26-27 January 2012 in London RRP: £995.00 Price: £950 You Save: £45.00

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!

Our implementation toolkits are on offer for one week only. Our unique toolkits are designed to help small and medium organisations quickly adapt and adopt best management practice in technology governance, risk management and compliance.

Until Friday 25th each toolkit comes with fantastic free resources.

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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.

Read more about this special offer toolkit >>>

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

Register for all three webinars now >>