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What is the role of a Certified Business Resilience Practitioner (CBRS, CBRM, CBRITP, CBRP, CBRA?)
A Certified Business Resilience Specialist (CBRS), Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM), Certified Business Resilience IT Professional (CBRITP), Certified Business Resilience Professional (CBRP), and Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA) possess comprehensive and in-depth knowledge, skills, and experience to assist organizations in establishing effective business resilience programs. These professionals possess comprehensive knowledge of the field as defined by BRCCI’s “Common Criteria for Business Resilience Professionals”.
The Common Criteria for Business Resilience Professionals is a common set of knowledge, concepts, and topics that form the core competency requirements in business resilience.
What is the objective of a Business Resilience Program (BRP?)
The business resilience program objective is to empower the organization with the ability to rapidly adjust and transform business in response to any change in order to prevent and mitigate hazards, capture opportunities, create competitive position, and improve shareholder value. The program enables organizations to become resilient by proactively adapting and adjusting to any changes resulting from either unexpected events, such as disasters, or normal business demands and activities such as mergers, downsizing, or market changes.
How does a Business Resilience Program relate to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning?
The fields of business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning have played critical roles in helping businesses achieve parts of –-but not all–-of the business resilience program objective. The primary objective of disaster recovery planning has been limited to protecting IT infrastructure and services from unexpected events and disasters. Business continuity planning extended the boundaries of disaster recovery planning to include the protection of business operations and processes. However, the objective of a business resilience program is larger than both business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning. A business resilience program covers both unanticipated changes as well as anticipated changes.
What are the requirements of a Business Resilience Program?
BRCCI has defined five high-level requirements for a Business Resilience Program. The program needs to be comprehensive, methodical, adaptable, proactive, and reactive.
- Comprehensive – This characteristic requires that a business resilience program is based on a comprehensive scope that covers organization’s end-to-end business and operational aspects. The scope includes business resilience strategies, business processes, people, IT assets and resources, non-IT assets and resources, product and services, supply-chains, laws and regulations, etc.
- Methodical – This ensures that a business resilience program is built on a structured, systematic and analytical approach for achieving resiliency objectives.
- Adaptable – This characterizes the ability of a business resilience program to adapt quickly to changing threats, circumstances, and business demands.
- Proactive – This is the ability of the business resilience program to anticipate future business changes, impacts, and discontinuities, and take preemptive actions to protect the resilience goals. The proactive business resilience program also has the ability to take advantage of opportunities to increase the shareholder values.
- Reactive – A business resilience program needs to have a strong reactive capability – in addition to the proactive capability to defend or protect the organization from unexpected situations that can lead to disastrous consequences.
What are the main components of a Business Resilience Program?
BRCCI defines a model for the business resilience program which satisfies the five high-level program requirements. The business resilience program model consists of four main components:
Business Resilience Strategy Planning (BRSP)
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Business Resilience Management (BRM)
How can I become a CBRS/CBRM?
The CBRS/CBRM designations are achieved through BRCCI's Management Path. The Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM) designation is the highest level certification in this path while the Certified Business Resilience Specialist (CBRS) designation is an intermediate level certification. To obtain the CBRS certification, candidates must successfully pass the CBRS/CBRM knowledge and experience examination. To obtain the CBRM designation, candidates must pass the CBRS/CBRM exam and possess a minimum of 2 years of practical work experience.
How can I become a CBRP?
The CBRP designation is based on a scoring matrix of points that takes into account a candidate’s education, credentials, experience, and accomplishments. These points reflect abilities as a Certified Business Resilience Professional. A total of 100 points are required to achieve CBRP certification.
To obtain a CBRP designation, a candidate must:
- Submit a CBRP Application
- Submit a CBRP Certification Processing Fee
How can I become a BRCCI member or an Associate of BRCCI?
Membership in BRCCI is open, and professionals wishing to join BRCCI automatically become an Associate of BRCCI. Associates of
BRCCI may or may not have experience in business continuity and resilience and do not need to posses any professional certification.
Associates of BRCCI or members however must have an interested in business continuity and resilience and may be currently
working in the field. BRCCI welcomes individuals from various fields such as risk management, information security, audit, business continuity, etc
Professionals wishing to join BRCCI automatically become an Associate of BRCCI. Download the Associate of BRCCI / Membership Application
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