8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions
Choose continuity strategies from the impact and risk findings, select the solutions that deliver them, determine the resources they need and put them into effect.
Source: ISO 22301:2019, 8.3. 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.
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 solutions are implemented and maintained · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Strategy document traceable to BIA and risk assessment outputs · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Selection rationale for the chosen solutions · Document repository
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Common gaps auditors find
- Strategy chosen before the impact analysis, then justified after the fact
- Solutions procured but never maintained to a state where they could be activated
- Resource requirements of the chosen solutions never worked out
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