Compliance · Certifiable standard
Prove you can keep operating when something breaks.
ISO 22301 certifies a business continuity management system — the discipline of knowing which activities matter most, how long they can be down, and what you actually do when they are. Customers in critical supply chains increasingly require it.
BIA
Starts with
RTO / RPO
Defines
3 yr
Certification cycle
Not a binder on a shelf — a tested system with measured recovery objectives.
The BIA identifies your prioritized activities and how quickly each must resume before the damage becomes unacceptable. Everything downstream depends on getting this honest.
RTO (how fast you recover) and RPO (how much data you can afford to lose) turn vague intent into engineering requirements you can actually design against.
Plans must be tested and improved. An untested continuity plan is a hypothesis, and auditors treat it that way.
Organizations whose downtime becomes somebody else's emergency.
We do the readiness, build and run the controls, and support you through the audit — we are not the auditor, and we keep that separation deliberate.
We run the BIA and get real answers on which activities matter and what downtime genuinely costs.
We set RTO/RPO per activity and design continuity strategies that meet them within budget.
We write continuity and recovery plans someone can actually execute at 3 a.m. under stress.
We implement the backup, failover, and redundancy the objectives require — and verify restores.
We run tabletop and functional exercises, then feed findings back into the plans.
We prepare the BCMS for Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit and support surveillance.
Define scope and run the business impact analysis.
Agree RTO/RPO and continuity strategies.
Build plans and the technical resilience behind them.
Test, measure, and improve.
Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit, then surveillance.
DR is the technical subset — restoring systems. ISO 22301 covers the whole business: which activities are prioritized, who decides, how you communicate, how you operate degraded, and how you improve. DR is one input to it.
27001 includes continuity considerations, but at nothing like this depth. If customers or regulators are specifically pressing on resilience, or downtime is your biggest business risk, 22301 is the standard that speaks to it directly.
The standard requires exercising at planned intervals and after significant change; it doesn't dictate a frequency. In practice, annual functional exercises with more frequent tabletops for critical activities is what stands up to audit — and to reality.
Most of the work transfers. Once controls are mapped and evidenced, a second framework costs a fraction of the first.
Tell us where you are and who’s asking for it — we’ll come back with scope, gaps, and a realistic timeline.