What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 8.3.4 Resource requirements?

Resource requirement schedule per solution covering each required resource type; Evidence the resource is available or contracted at the required quantity and time; Reconciliation between required resources and the dependencies identified in the BIA.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 8.3.4?

Resource analysis covering ICT only, with people, finance and logistics unexamined

ISO 22301:2019 · Operation, ISO 22301:2019

`8.3.4` Resource requirements

Determine the resources needed to implement the selected continuity solutions, considering at least people, information and data, physical infrastructure such as buildings, workplaces and facilities with their utilities, equipment and consumables, information and communication technology systems, transport and logistics, finance, and partners and suppliers.

Source: ISO 22301:2019, 8.3.4. 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

Evidence the resource is available or contracted at the required quantity and time · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Resource requirement schedule per solution covering each required resource type · Document repository
Reconciliation between required resources and the dependencies identified in the BIA · 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

Resource analysis covering ICT only, with people, finance and logistics unexamined
Requirements stated without quantity or time to availability
Partner and supplier resources assumed available with no contractual basis
Consumables and utilities omitted, so a recovery site cannot actually operate

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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8.3.3 Selection of strategies and solutions · 8.3.5 Implementation of solutions