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The leader in business continuity education and certification across many industries, DRI International offers team training designed to fit the needs of every organization, from private corporations to the public sector and everywhere in-between.
Higher Education
DRI International offers colleges and universities the opportunity to familiarize their students with information on business continuity professions and certifications recognized by private and public sector organizations around the world.
Certification Overview
Certification is a two-part process; verification of knowledge and confirmation of experience.
Value of Certification
A DRI International certification is the most widely recognized and respected business continuity certification in the world. DRI only certifies professionals that have demonstrated both knowledge and experience in the business continuity and/or disaster recovery profession.
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Maintaining your DRI International certification carries two requirements; an annual maintenance fee as well as Continuing Education Activity Points (CEAP).
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Hiring Guide
Learn how to hire the right business continuity professionals that will enable your organization to withstand any crisis and come through even stronger with the DRI Hiring Guide. Download now.
What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)?
BCM is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience.
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Pandemic Simulation Exposes Massive Preparedness and Response Gaps
A mock pandemic exercise run by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security was intended to test current preparedness levels. The end result of the simulation: 150 million dead worldwide.
The exercise, which mixed details of past disasters (and inspired in part by the response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic) with fictional aspects, was designed to give U.S. government officials and experts an experience in making the key decisions they could face during a real event. Officials had no advance knowledge, but had to make hard calls over whether to impose entry bans on international flights, how to respond to political pressure, who should receive initial vaccines, and more.
The result of the simulation: the fictional, flu-like outbreak had a 10% fatality rate akin to the SARS virus of 2002, and quickly spread to large cities around the world, ultimately killing 150 million people and crushing healthcare systems, stock markets, and governments.
“We didn’t want to have a Disney ending,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins center, told the New York Times. “We wanted to have a plausible scenario. We did know it would be jarring.”
Among the key lessons learned were to be more proactive in developing vaccines to combat the threat (failure to develop one within 20 months was one of the causes of the massive death toll), and also to counter social media misinformation that could otherwise derail response efforts.
