ISO 22301 Bussines Continuity Management

The ISO 22301 standard specifies the requirements of a management system to protect a company from incidents that cause an interruption in the activity, reduce the likelihood that it will produce and guarantee the recovery of your company. The impact of any type of disaster on commercial activity can have important repercussions, regardless of the size of the organization.

It is especially relevant in organizations that operate in high-risk environments where the ability to continue working is of utmost importance to the business, customers and interested parties.

The implementation of the ISO 22301 standard allows organizations to demonstrate their capacity to continue operating normally in the event of an interruption, minimizing their weaknesses and reinforcing their strengths. The standard allows organizations:

• Establish, implement, maintain and improve business continuity management systems
• Comply with the requirements of the business continuity policy
• Provide stakeholders with confidence in their compliance and commitment to internationally recognized good practices
• Provide a common language to global organizations, especially those with a long and complex supply chain
• Protection of employees and brand reputation
• Ensures the continuity of business and the marketing of products and services
• Provides a base of understanding, development and implementation of business continuity, bringing confidence from business to business and from business to client

The CERNE brand of Information Security supposes a public recognition of the commitment of an organization with the improvement of the management of the information.

Once the audit process has been completed, and the system implemented meets the requirements of the ISO 27001 standard, your organization obtains:

– The CERNE Certificate of Business Continuity Management Systems.
– The license to use the CERNE Business Continuity brand.

It is applicable to any organization (private, public, governmental or non-profit) regardless of its type, size or service rendered, that has need and interest in managing its operations in a sustainable manner.

• The safe and effective management of information will have a positive impact on the success of your organization, and will provide you with the following benefits:
• Identify and manage current and future threats for your company
• Have the ability to resist the effects of an incident (Resilience) as well as prevent or avoid possible scenarios caused by a crisis situation
• Use a proactive approach to minimize the impact of incidents
• Keep your critical functions up and running during times of crisis
• Minimize the interruption time after any incident and improve the recovery time
• Acquire greater flexibility in the face of interruption of activities
• Demonstrate resistance to customers, suppliers and tender offers

Business continuity is part of the overall risk management within an organization, so it has common areas and aspects with the management of information security.