What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 6.2 Business continuity objectives and planning to achieve them?

Documented objectives with the plan attached to each; Evidence objectives are monitored and reported; Evidence the objective set is updated as the organization changes.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 6.2?

Objectives stated as aspirations with no plan behind them

ISO 22301:2019 · Planning, ISO 22301:2019

`6.2` Business continuity objectives and planning to achieve them

Set business continuity objectives and plan concretely how each of them will be achieved.

Source: ISO 22301:2019, 6.2. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open ISO 22301:2019 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Evidence objectives are monitored and reported · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Evidence the objective set is updated as the organization changes · Policy repository / GRC workspace

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Documented objectives with the plan attached to each · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Objectives stated as aspirations with no plan behind them
Objectives never measured, so achievement is asserted rather than shown
Objective set unchanged over years despite material change in the business

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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6.1.2 Addressing risks and opportunities · 6.2.1 Establishing business continuity objectives