3 semester credits

The term business continuity management is a unifying process and the umbrella under which multiple supporting functions, including crisis management and business continuity, operate and integrate. Terrorism represents a significant threat to global business leaders, since globalization and terrorism are inextricably linked. Events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2004 Madrid bombings had significant impact on business continuity management. From a business continuity perspective, learners in this course examine key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community from a global viewpoint. What is its role in homeland security and how may these topics affect business continuity management? The emphasis of the course will be on issues affecting business continuity management policy, oversight, and intelligence support to homeland defense/security and global business decision making. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is addressed, and the course is shaped to focus on homeland intelligence support business issues at the state, local, and tribal levels.