7.5 Documented information
Hold the documented information the BCMS depends on, create and update it to a defined standard, and control it throughout its life.
Source: ISO 22301:2019, 7.5. 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
- Access, retention and disposition rules in force · Data governance / DLP tooling
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Document register covering BCMS documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Defined creation, update and approval route · Document repository
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Common gaps auditors find
- Register incomplete, so documents exist that nothing controls
- External origin documents excluded from control
- Retention rules stated but never applied
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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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