ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management — so disruption never becomes disaster.
Ransomware, power failures, floods, vendor outages, data centre fires — disruptions are inevitable. What matters is how fast your business recovers. ISO 22301 is the international standard for Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS). It gives your organisation a structured, tested, and auditable framework for responding to and recovering from disruptions — protecting revenue, reputation, and regulatory standing. For Indian enterprises, ISO 22301 is increasingly required alongside ISO 27001 by BFSI clients, government contracts, and enterprise procurement.
A structured process — so you always know what is happening and what comes next.
Business Impact Analysis — identify critical processes, dependencies, RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives), and RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) for each function.
Identify threats that could disrupt critical processes — cyber incidents, infrastructure failure, supply chain, natural events — and assess likelihood and impact.
Design Business Continuity Plans for each critical process — alternate procedures, communication trees, escalation paths, and resource requirements.
Design IT Disaster Recovery plans — system recovery sequences, backup validation, failover procedures, and RTO/RPO achievement verification.
Tabletop exercises, functional tests, and full DR tests to validate plans. Pre-certification internal audit, then support through ISO 22301 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits.
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ISO 22301 is the international standard for Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS). It provides a framework for organisations to plan, implement, monitor, and continually improve their ability to protect against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
Business Continuity (BC) covers the people, processes, and communication needed to keep the business running during a disruption — often using manual workarounds or alternate sites. Disaster Recovery (DR) is specifically about restoring IT systems and data. BC is broader; DR is a component of BC.
A BIA identifies which business processes are most critical, what resources they depend on, and how long the business can tolerate disruption before significant harm occurs. The BIA output — RTOs and RPOs — drives the design of your continuity and recovery plans.
ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 are separate certifications, but they are highly complementary. ISO 27001 Annex A (5.30) requires information security continuity, which is formally satisfied by ISO 22301. Many Indian enterprises pursue both certifications together — sharing documentation, risk assessments, and audit effort.
For most organisations, implementing a BCMS and achieving ISO 22301 certification takes 16–24 weeks, depending on the number of critical processes in scope, existing documentation maturity, and whether DR infrastructure is already in place.
Yes. RBI requires banks and NBFCs to maintain documented BCP and DR plans, with annual testing. SEBI has similar requirements for market participants. CERT-In expects incident response and recovery capability. ISO 22301 provides the structured, auditable framework that satisfies all these requirements.
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