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ISO 22301 Readiness

Prepare a Business Continuity Management System under ISO 22301 to keep critical operations running through disruption.

Overview

Stay operational when it matters most.

ISO 22301 provides a framework to anticipate, prepare for and recover from disruptive incidents. Certification demonstrates resilience to customers and regulators alike.

We help you build the BCMS — business impact analysis, continuity strategies and tested plans — and ready it for certification.

What’s covered

What we assess and prepare.

Business impact analysis

Critical activities and recovery objectives.

Risk & continuity strategy

Options to maintain operations.

Continuity plans

Documented, role-based response.

Exercising & testing

Validating plans actually work.

Management system

Policy, objectives and review.

Who needs this

Is this engagement for you?

The profiles that typically call on this service.

Critical-service providersContinuity obligations.
Financial institutionsRegulator-expected resilience.
IT / cloud operatorsUptime commitments.
ManufacturersOperational continuity.
Healthcare providersService availability.
Any org needing resilienceBCMS certification.
Regulatory drivers

Why this is required

ISO 22301 certification of your business-continuity management system is increasingly expected by regulators and clients in critical sectors; readiness prepares the impact analysis, plans and exercises the standard requires.

ISO 22301
The business-continuity standard you are preparing to certify against.
RBI / sector regulators
Regulated entities face explicit business-continuity and operational-resilience expectations.
Client contracts
Continuity-assurance clauses increasingly require recognised certification.
How we work

A structured path, start to finish.

An orderly lifecycle designed for a credible, defensible result.

Scoping & BCMS boundary

Defining the business-continuity management system scope.

Business impact analysis

Identifying critical activities, RTOs and dependencies.

Risk assessment & strategies

Assessing threats and selecting continuity strategies.

Plans & documentation

Building business-continuity plans and documentation.

Exercising & testing

Testing the plans through exercises and reviewing results.

Internal audit & certification handoff

Internal audit, review and certification readiness.

What you receive

Documentation built for every audience.

  • BCMS gap assessment reportYour posture against ISO 22301.
  • BIA & continuity plansImpact analysis and business-continuity plans.
  • Policy & plan templatesBCMS documentation to build on.
  • Implementation trackerProgress tracked to readiness.
  • Exercise results & sign-offTested plans before certification.

Standards & frameworks

This work maps to the standards and regulatory requirements relevant to you.

ISO 22301ISO 22313ISO 27001 (mapping)NIST
Checklist

Are you ready? A quick checklist

What to have in place before we begin.

BCMS scope defined
Business impact analysis started
Critical activities identified
Recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) set
Continuity strategies drafted
Response plans documented
Exercise schedule planned
Target certification date set
FAQ

Common questions

What’s a BIA?
A business impact analysis identifies your organisation’s critical activities, the resources they depend on, and how quickly each must be recovered after a disruption. It produces your recovery time and recovery point objectives, and it is the foundation the entire business-continuity management system is built on.
Do you test the plans?
Yes. Exercising and testing the plans is a required part of readiness, because untested plans rarely survive contact with a real incident. We run table-top and scenario exercises to validate that your plans work, surface gaps, and build your team’s confidence before certification.
How does this relate to disaster recovery?
Disaster recovery is the IT-recovery subset — restoring systems, data and infrastructure. ISO 22301 covers the broader business continuity around it: people, premises, suppliers and processes. A good BCMS treats DR as one component of keeping the whole business running through a disruption.
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