7.1 Resources
Determine and provide the resources needed to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve the BCMS.
Source: ISO 22301:2019, 7.1. 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.
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
- Evidence of provision, such as budget allocation, headcount or contracted capacity · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence resourcing is revisited as the BCMS matures · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Documented determination of the resources the BCMS requires · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Resource need never determined, so provision is whatever was left over
- Provision covers implementation only and lapses at maintenance
- Resource shortfalls known to the BCMS owner but never escalated to top management
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.
Build my evidence sheet6.3 Planning changes to the business continuity management system · 7.2 Competence