ASIS Organizational Resilience Standard
Implementation Course

Is your organization prepared for the unexpected?

Organizational resilience management is an increasingly complex challenge. Companies must manage risks and assure resilience by identifying potential threats, assessing risks, and implementing measures to prevent, respond to, and recover from disruptive incidents. Make your organization more resilient. Learn how to implement and conduct internal audits to the ASIS American National Standard Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness, and Continuity Management Systems (ASIS SPC.1—2009).

This intensive, three-day course is applicable to any organization that needs to establish, implement, maintain, and improve an organizational resilience management system. The ASIS SPC.1—2009 standard is currently under consideration for inclusion in the Department of Homeland Security's PS-Prep.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive an ASIS International certificate acknowledging your ability to implement and internally audit against the ASIS SPC.1—2009.

Immediate Benefits

Gain the knowledge and skills needed to:

• Implement the ASIS SPC.1—2009 standard in any type of organization.
• Identify necessary steps to establish and maintain an organizational resilience management system that supports your organization's mission and objectives.
• Understand the conduct of risk assessments to support decision-making for resilience.
• Establish an effective internal auditing program.
• Perform internal audits.
• Participate in an audit team for verification of conformance to the standard's requirements.

Who Should Attend

• Executives making resilience, security, preparedness, continuity, operational, and funding decisions
• Security, crisis management, and continuity managers and directors
• Resilience, security, crisis, and continuity management professionals
• Managers and directors engaged in supply chain activities
• Private sector and government decision-makers involved improving resilience and preparedness of their organizations
• System auditors and risk management professionals

Overview

The program will provide you with the knowledge and tools to establish, implement, evaluate, and maintain a management system to improve your organization's resilience.

Resilience and Management System Concepts
What are the basic principles of a resilience approach and the application of a systems approach to improve resilience? Understand the basic concepts of resilience and the benefits of taking a holistic approach to managing risks associated with a disruptive incident. Learn how a systems approach with a management system can improve resilience and preparedness performance in a cost-effective way using a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Model.

Getting Started
Learn how to initiate an organizational resilience program by identifying the need and demonstrating this need to decision-makers in the organization who must support and commit resources to the program.

Establishing the Context
What is important to the organization to assure its resilience and profitability? Learn how to establish the context of the management system to address the mission, objectives, and goals of the organization to protect and provide its critical activities, functions, products, and services. A gap analysis will help you better understand where you are so you can determine where you are going.

Risk Assessment
How can you use a risk-based approach to adaptively and proactively manage risks to the organization due to disruptive incidents? Go beyond a reactionary strategy to better prepare for disruptions. Understand the justification and benefits of performing a risk assessment and the methodology behind the identification, analysis, and evaluation of risks.

Risk Treatment
It is neither possible nor desirable to eliminate all risks. Therefore, organizations must prioritize risks and determine a risk treatment strategy to cost-effectively establish adaptive, proactive, and reactive approaches to control risk.

Implementation and Operation of the Management System
How do you develop and implement procedures to make resilience management part of the everyday culture of your organization? To improve organizational resilience it is important to create a dynamic culture in the organization that promotes resilience objectives. This includes establishing procedure to address the conduct of activities within the organization on a day-to-day basis.

Performance and System Evaluation
How do you know what you are doing is improving resilience performance? Understand how to evaluate the management system performance to determine if your system is meeting your organization's objectives. Create exercising and testing programs to evaluate your system.

Review and Improvement
Learn how to establish corrective and preventive procedures to continually improve your organization's performance. Review the performance of your management system standard application with top management to align it with the organization's business objectives and mission.

Auditing the Management System Standard
How do you conduct an audit and establish an audit program to demonstrate conformance with the standard? Conformance with the ASIS SPC.1—2009 can be demonstrated with either internal or external audits. Learn how to establish and conduct an auditing program using the ISO 19001. The ISO 19001 is recognized around the globe as the standard that provides a basis for conducting effective and reliable audits of management system standards.

Fast Facts

Program Hours

Wednesday–Thursday
9:00 am–5:00 pm

Friday
8:00 am–1:00 pm

Registration Fees

$   875.00 ASIS Members
$1,075.00 Non-Members

Fee includes breakfast three days, a networking reception, daily refreshment breaks, and a copy of the ASIS Organizational Resilience American National Standard. Hotel costs are not included.

Attire

Business casual is recommended.

Instructor

Dr. Marc Siegel is the Security Management Systems Consultant heading the ASIS International (ASIS) Global Standards Initiative. He represents ASIS at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), other international forums, and on security management at international and national standards forums. He works with ASIS chapters and national standards bodies on five continents to develop international resilience, incident preparedness, security, and continuity standards for the security sector; he also provides training on their implementation. He is a highly experienced trainer on the implementation of standards and a RABQSA International certified Security Management Systems Lead Auditor and Trainer for the ISO 28000.

Dr. Siegel serves as an Adjunct Professor in the College of Business Administration and the Master's Program in Homeland Security at San Diego State University (SDSU).