ISO 22301 is the international standard for Business Continuity Management (BCM). Published by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 22301 is designed to help organizations stop, prepare for, respond to and recover from unpredicted and disruptive incidents.
This standard may be right for your organization if you requirement to demonstrate to stakeholders that your organization can rapidly overcome operational disruption to provide constant and effective service.
The latest revision of ISO 22301 was published in October 2019. ISO 22301:2019 has replaced ISO 22301:2012, which was developed based on the British standard BS 25999-2. This 2019 revision does not bring big changes, but it definitely brings more flexibility and less prescriptiveness, adding more value to organizations and their consumers.
Being certified against ISO 22301 gives you the power of providing a premium level of services to your shareholders no matter the circumstances. ISO 22301 recognizes you the ability to protected data backups, minimize major losses and maximize the recovery time of critical functions. With ISO 22301, you will improve your information and skills and you will be able to instruct your organization on best practices in the management of business continuity. Given that, you will increase your ability to analyze and make decisions in the context of business continuity management.