What is ISO 22301?
ISO 22301 is the international standard created to ensure efficient business continuity management by protecting companies from disruptions, be it pandemics, cyberattacks, unexpected software failures, fire, natural disasters, or other dangers.
Essentially, this standard allows organizations to continue providing products and services within acceptable times at a predefined capability during any crisis.
How Compliance Aspekte BCM tool can help you?
Compliance Aspekte is a GRC solution that helps companies implement a holistic BCM software tool across the entire organization while ensuring compliance with the ISO 22301 standard.
The BCM software tool pinpoints factors that threaten your business and its essential business functions. Compliance Aspekte allows you to develop feasible plans beforehand to guarantee that your company doesn’t shut down during a disruption.
The main benefits
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- Ensures the continuity of business operations, protecting your turnover and profits.
- Enables a strategic approach to crisis management, ensuring essential operations remain unaffected.
- Minimizes the occurrence of incidents, preventing reactive responses and contributing to a more secure business environment.
- Facilitates a swift recovery process, minimizing downtime and enabling a rapid return to normal business operations after incidents.
- Shows your business resiliency to customers, suppliers, partners, and stakeholders.
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Building ISO 22301 BCM system with us
Business continuity is an integral part of an organization’s information security management system, and Compliance Aspekte can help you efficiently manage BSMS as a part of your ISMS.
With Compliance Aspekte, companies can:
- use in-built templates and instructions to conform to ISO 22301 with an opportunity to meet individual needs;
- import external information for business impact analysis from configuration management databases (CMDB) or other enterprise systems that refer to the business continuity management process;
- have a general overview of all input data (such as asset structure model, correction to requirements, threats, and safeguards) in one place.
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- Standard implementation guide for the compliance assessment according to BCMS policies.
- Business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Merging of all dispersed data into a single platform (through CMDB or manual entering).
- Customizable and automated reporting that comes with report templates and an opportunity to create custom ones.
- Clear dashboards that provide a complete overview of all compliance management activities.
- Azure AI GPT-based Bot that helps collect crucial information and generate concrete tasks to fulfill IT security requirements or mitigate risks.
How to conduct business impact analysis in ISO 22301?
Try for free- Step 1: Determine the types of impact and criteria applicable to the business environment.
- Step 2: Define the activities that facilitate the provision of products and services.
- Step 3: Evaluate the consequences over time (also known as the maximum tolerable period of disruption) of not performing those activities.
- Step 4: Set a priority time frame within the time identified in step four for renewing disrupted activities at a minimum acceptable capacity.
- Step 5: Use the analysis to determine the activities with priority.
- Step 6: Define which resources are required to support these activities.
- Step 7: Specify the dependencies, such as partners and suppliers, and interdependencies of these activities.
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FAQ
It is not required for organizations to have the ISO 22301 certification. However, it can be a perfect indicator to your clients, partners, and stakeholders that your company satisfies the standard’s criteria has embraced international best practices and is ready to provide business continuity in case of any disruption.
The four fundamental principles of business continuity management systems are:
Getting management support:
The total support from the C-level executives and board management ensures that the company will have all the necessary resources to start creating and implementing the BCMS and that it will be aligned with the company’s business strategy. It will also help to promote continuous improvement of the BCMS throughout the organization.
Risk evaluation:
The risk evaluation principle underlines the importance of considering damage scenarios that may cause business disruptions. The scenario must be specific to each particular organization. In this step, companies should be able to compute a risk score that takes into account two factors: the severity of an incident and its likelihood of occurring.
BIA (Business impact analysis):
BIA helps to identify essential activities and resources and then define the severity of the business impact if those activities were disrupted or those resources were unavailable. Business impact analysis will help to further determine priorities for recovery after a disruption: how quickly it will take you to resume each activity after an incident, etc.
Business Continuity Plan (BCP):
The fourth main principle includes the development of a BCP based on a company’s risk evaluation and BIA. Its goal is to stabilize the situation after the business process disruption.
A BCP will include the following:
– Contact details for suppliers, authorities, and other interested parties
– Call trees featuring key staff to ensure the availability of the right competence
– Step-by-step checklists in case of specific events
Some of the crucial disruptions that companies can face are the following:
– Cyberattacks
– Data breaches
– Data infringements
– Adverse weather (fire, flood, hurricane, etc.)
– Unplanned IT & software failures
– Supply chain interruptions
– Epidemics and pandemics (such as COVID)
– Power outage
– Loss of skilled staff
– Acts of terrorism
– Wars
ISO 22301:2019 is the latest revision of this ISO standard and has some improvements to provide more clarity and values to users compared to its 2012 version.
The main improvements of the BCM ISO aim:
– To make the standard easier to read and implement; it has been restructured with greater clarity about what is required.
– To eliminate duplication, the language and terminology used in the standard have been simplified. In addition, the current version of ISO 22301 represents the up-to-date thinking of the business world.
– To fully conform with all other ISO management system standards, the High-Level Structure has been simplified.
Yes, our team is always ready to support you at all stages of implementing the ISO 22301 compliance tool. We will happily answer your questions and explain all the intricacies of how our BCM software works. We provide detailed consultations, which will help you better understand the product and all processes within the system.
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