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AEES Executive Certificate in Business continuity and cyber crisis

Hold what matters when the system falls, and close the crisis without improvising. This AEES certification attests business continuity and cyber crisis.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Business continuity and cyber crisis

A vague familiarity with “Business continuity and cyber crisis” is no longer enough. This belongs with Cybersecurity and sovereignty. You hold cyber risk, the information system, privacy and continuity. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to hold what matters in a crisis, decide a failover and close without improvising. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Business continuity and cyber crisis” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Business continuity and cyber crisis” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can hold what matters in a crisis, decide a failover and close without improvising, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Hold what matters in a crisis
  • Decide a failover
  • Close without improvising
  • Say enough to protect
  • Keep what will let you explain tomorrow
  • Come back without reopening the same hole
ESCO classification — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

ESCO, the European skills vocabulary

This is the European Commission’s classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. This certificate is linked to it through the skills below. Each link opens the official record.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Essential, Failover, Cell and Communication.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1, Essential: Name what must continue, even by hand When systems fail in a cyber crisis, the first question is not how to restore every feature. It is what must continue right now, even by hand, so customers are protected, cash keeps moving, and legal duties are not breached. This module teaches you to name those essentials clearly, cut through noise, and prepare small, testable actions that hold the line while technical work proceeds. You will turn knowledge of your business into a simple, usable artifact that leaders and teams can follow in the first hours and days of disruption. The discipline here is practical. You will not try to replicate a full business continuity management system. You will focus on four things: deciding what is essential, setting minimum service levels that are possible without the usual systems, listing manual workarounds that can be done safely, and writing down who decides and when. You will structure this into a dossier that you can review with stakeholders and test in short drills. The aim is to reduce downtime harm and avoid improvisation under pressure.
  2. Failover: Decide to Cut, Switch Safely, or Operate Degraded When a cyber incident threatens your core services, the clock does not wait for perfect information. You have three practical options. Cut to stop the damage. Fail over to a safe environment. Or keep going in a degraded mode that buys time and preserves what you can. The hard part is to choose fast and to execute without improvising. This module gives you a simple way to decide, and a disciplined way to act when minutes matter. Failover is not a button. It is a move with high consequences on people, partners, customers and regulators. A good failover keeps critical outcomes alive while you isolate the threat. A bad one spreads infection to your recovery site, locks you out of data, or creates a new outage that lasts longer than the attack. You need clear criteria, a small set of preapproved patterns, and a proof mindset. You also need to be ready to run on paper or alternate channels when the system is untrustworthy.
  3. Module 3, Cell: Who decides, who speaks, who executes When a cyber incident or continuity threat breaks containment, scattered efforts waste minutes and magnify harm. A crisis cell is the compact structure that concentrates authority, aligns communications, and converts facts into directed action. In this module you will learn how to set up and run that cell so it holds what matters in a crisis, assigns clear roles, and produces decisions that others can execute without confusion. You will not write a theory. You will build a practical cell model that fits your company, define activation triggers, and rehearse the first hour. You will specify who decides, who speaks inside and outside the organisation, and who executes. You will establish record keeping that protects you on the day and helps you explain tomorrow. You will also design interfaces with technical responders, legal and compliance functions, insurers, regulators, and law enforcement.
  4. Module 4/6, Communication in Business Continuity and Cyber Crisis In a cyber crisis, every word carries risk. The wrong sentence can harm an investigation, break a regulatory duty, or lock your team into a promise they cannot keep. The right sentence can buy time, preserve evidence, calm stakeholders, and align everyone behind the next action. Communication is not a side activity. It is an operational control that shapes outcomes. This module gives you a practical method to prepare, decide, and deliver crisis communication under uncertainty. You will learn to speak early without speculating, to prioritise audiences, to use holding statements and message maps, and to coordinate with your technical, legal, and business continuity teams. You will also learn how to document your decisions so that you can explain them later to management, auditors, and regulators.
  5. Module 5, Evidence In a cyber crisis you must act fast, but haste without discipline can erase the very traces you need to explain what happened, contain the damage and prove you acted responsibly. Evidence is not only for courts. It is what lets your leadership make informed decisions, what allows your teams to avoid repeating a mistake and what helps regulators, insurers and partners trust your account of events. This module shows you how to keep what will let you explain tomorrow while you manage today. You will not become a forensic analyst in a week. You will learn a practical method to prepare your environment, decide what to keep under pressure, preserve it in a defensible way and use it to support continuity and recovery. You will also learn where the legal and privacy boundaries start and how to work within them.
  6. Return: Restore operations without re-exposing the organization Returning to normal after a cyber crisis is more than turning systems back on. A clean comeback requires that you remove persistence, validate integrity, and stage services so that customers and staff can trust them again. You must formalize decision gates, keep evidence and lessons, and communicate what changes for users. The goal is to meet business needs while keeping residual risk acceptable. That balance only happens when you follow a method and resist shortcuts. This module builds the path from containment to stable operations. You align technical remediation with business priorities and legal constraints. You will define go or no go criteria, rebuild from known good baselines, and reconnect dependencies in a controlled order. You will also define a warranty period of heightened monitoring and a formal closure that leaves your posture stronger than before.