What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 8.3.3 Selection of strategies and solutions?

Selection decision record naming the three selection factors; Statement of the risk the organization is prepared to take that the decision was judged against; Cost and benefit analysis behind the chosen solution; Approval by the authority able to accept the residual exposure.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 8.3.3?

Selection made on cost with time frames and risk appetite unexamined

ISO 22301:2019 · Operation, ISO 22301:2019

`8.3.3` Selection of strategies and solutions

Choose among the candidates identified according to how far they meet the time frames and the capacity agreed, suit how much risk, and of what kinds, the organization is willing to accept, and hold up when their costs are weighed against their benefits.

Source: ISO 22301:2019, 8.3.3. 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

Document repository

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

Selection decision record naming the three selection factors · Document repository
Approval by the authority able to accept the residual exposure · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Statement of the risk the organization is prepared to take that the decision was judged against · Document repository
Cost and benefit analysis behind the chosen solution · Document repository

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

Selection made on cost with time frames and risk appetite unexamined
Risk appetite never articulated, so fit to appetite cannot be judged
Residual gap between what the solution delivers and what the BIA requires left unrecorded and unaccepted

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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8.3.2 Identification of strategies and solutions · 8.3.4 Resource requirements