8.4 Business continuity plans and procedures
Maintain a response structure and a set of plans and procedures that let the organization warn and communicate, respond in a structured way, continue prioritized activities and return to normal operation.
Source: ISO 22301:2019, 8.4. 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.
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
- Distribution evidence showing plans are where responders are · Policy repository / GRC workspace
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Current plan set covering response structure, warning and communication, plans and recovery · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Evidence the plan set derives from the selected strategies and solutions · Policy repository / GRC workspace
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Common gaps auditors find
- Plan set that documents response but stops short of return to normal operations
- Plans not derived from the selected solutions, so they assume capability that was never built
- Plans available only in one location or one format
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