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ISO 22301 continuity and BIA

Practical guidance for running an ISMS with owners, evidence, and improvement cycles auditors can verify. Use the takeaways and FAQ below as a checklist; then deep-link into your registers and change records.

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What this page covers

Practical guidance for running an ISMS with owners, evidence, and improvement cycles auditors can verify. Use the takeaways and FAQ below as a checklist; then deep-link into your registers and change records.

Practical next steps

Assign owners, set review dates, and collect artefacts that match production reality. Use internal audits to rehearse the story before the external certification audit.

Common pitfalls

Avoid scope drift, ownerless actions, and documentation that does not match live configuration. Prefer short maintained records over one-off project dumps.

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Key takeaways

  • Link controls to risk treatment and your Statement of Applicability, avoid policy-only boxes.
  • Assign owners, review cadence, and measurable acceptance criteria for every material action.
  • Use sampling and KPIs to show controls work in operations, not only that they were planned.
  • Align incidents and vendor changes with privacy/legal where personal data or chain risk is involved.

Frequently asked questions

What should a business impact analysis inform?
Use the analysis to understand how disruption affects important activities over time and which dependencies are required for recovery. Connect those findings to priorities, recovery expectations and continuity arrangements. Record assumptions and test them where practical. A list of applications ranked by IT alone may miss the business consequences, people or suppliers needed to restore a usable service.

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