NEWS RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Margaret Langsett, Virtual Corporation (973) 927-5454, ex. 202
Cheryl Burgess, Virtual Corporation (973) 927-5454, ex. 211
Virtual Corporation Announces
Business Continuity Maturity ModelSM Assessment Training
FLANDERS, NJ, May 7, 2004 Virtual Corporation, Inc., a consulting services corporation, announces their upcoming seminar for individuals to become licensed Business Continuity Maturity ModelSM (BCMMSM) assessors. The 2-day seminar will be held in Toronto, Canada at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre. The cost of the program will be $895 US Dollars, which includes all BCMMSM courseware and Assessment Toolkit.
This seminar is for business continuity professionals with a minimum of 3 years dedicated business continuity experience. All participants will be expected to possess a significant level of understanding of Business Continuity principles and terminology encompassing Disaster Recovery, Business Recovery, Security Management and Incident Management. This is not a course for general assessment principles. Experience as an internal or external consultant is highly desirable.
For detailed seminar information, course agenda and a registration form and upcoming training classes please visit our website: http://www.virtual-corp.net/html/bcmm_training.html.
In the current business environment with heightened awareness the need to find ways to recover from crisis situations, including natural or man-made threats, Virtual Corporation’s Business Continuity Maturity ModelSM provides a consistent, objective means for evaluating disaster readiness. In addition to business recovery, the model addresses security management, incident management and technology recovery.
Designed for businesses of all sizes, companies can use the public domain model to perform a self-assessment. For a more rigorous assessment, companies can retain an objective third party that has been licensed and trained to perform the more detailed assessment. Data from these assessments will be retained by Virtual Corporation to share as benchmark analyses for the business continuity industry as a whole. Companies performing the evaluation can use their assessment results for investment, insurance, and other financial and risk management decisions. The Public Domain BCMMSM can be downloaded from the web at www.virtual-corp.net.
The concept for the BCMMSM emerged in 1997 when Virtual Corporation’s President, Scott Ream, spoke with several business continuity professionals regarding the need to find a way to objectively benchmark their business continuity management (BCM) programs. Since then, several surveys have been conducted and published describing performance by industry, company size and other demographics. The results supported the need for an objective diagnostic and benchmarking tool. In April 2002, a working team comprised of cross-industry practitioners was formed as the instrument through which experience, consultation, and advice could be harvested. Working team members came from a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, and banking.
Virtual Corporation is a consulting company that specializes in business continuity (BC) management. In business for almost 10 years, Virtual has helped numerous large, geographically dispersed enterprises ensure that they will be able to recover from business disruptions. In addition to consulting services, Virtual provides training to prepare individuals to perform BCMMSM assessments, training for implementing BC programs, and staffing services.
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