ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management

Protection against any crisis

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Respond and recover quickly and efficiently

Prevention is better than cure. But sometimes, even with the best planning, things go wrong.

An ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) gives you the framework to manage minor disruptions and inconveniences to your business such as brief power outages or equipment faults, all the way up to full on disasters such as fire, flooding and cyber attacks.

Even the most trivial of mishaps can escalate and have major consequences if you don’t have plans in place. When something goes wrong, you need to be able to spring into action at a moment’s notice to keep your business running, minimise the damage and get back to business as usual as quickly as possible.

You then need to review what went wrong, learn from it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System helps you achieve all of the above. It’s the ultimate risk management tool providing reassurance to your customers and everyone connected to your organisation that you are trustworthy and reliable.

ISO 22301 neatly integrates with other standards such as ISO 9001 Quality Management and ISO 27001 Information Security. An integrated management system like this ensures you not only achieve high standards but can maintain them in the event of disruption.

Reasons to get ISO 22301All organisations can benefit from an ISO 22301 certified Business Continuity Management System.

3Risk management – Enables you to identify and mitigate threats and potential crises, reducing the likelihood of repeat incidents.

3Contingency plans - Helps you establish procedures and plans for resilience when faced with disruption.

3Respond effectively - Enables you to act quickly and effectively using a rehearsed method to restore operations to an agreed level and timeframe.

3Minimise loss and disruption - Keeps downtime and financial losses to a minimum.

3Crisis management – Enhances capability for managing a disruption including communicating with stakeholders and protecting reputation and brand.

3Win more business - Provides evidence of your dependability and reassures potential clients, especially in the public sector.

3Demonstrate you meet regulatory requirements - GDPR and the NIS Directive state that organisations must implement incident response capabilities.

“In some respects, ISO 22301 is the ultimate risk management tool. There’s nothing out there that helps an organisation to assess the potential for incidents and deal with the aftermath in quite the same way as this standard. When it comes to incident response

and minimising disruption, there really is nothing that can replace a well thought out system to get a business back on its feet. I have seen many instances of ISO 22301

certified organisations who count their blessings that they adopted the standard.”Steve Stubley, Technical Director, Alcumus ISOQAR

What the Alcumus ISOQAR expert says

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