ISO enabled free access to ISO 31000, ISO 22301, and other business continuity standards
Liza Horielikova
In response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has provided free access to some of...
In response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has provided free access to some of its key standards supporting business continuity management, resilience, and risk management. The standards are available...
Organizational Resilience – Positioning Against ISO 22301-Based Business Continuity
Wolfgang Mahr
Approaches and methods to successfully and sustainably run businesses are being rapidly developed. Recently, the term of Organizational Resilience was...
Approaches and methods to successfully and sustainably run businesses are being rapidly developed. Recently, the term of Organizational Resilience was interpreted as being the new expression for the term Business Continuity. According to industry sources,...
How can ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 help with critical infrastructure protection?
Antonio Jose Segovia
The European Council Directive 2008/114/EC of December 8, 2008, is a European Directive for the identification and designation of critical...
The European Council Directive 2008/114/EC of December 8, 2008, is a European Directive for the identification and designation of critical European infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection. It states: Critical...
Using ISO 22301 business continuity practices to support mass public events
Managing public events with hundreds or thousands of people is a challenge, as disruptions of these events may result in...
Managing public events with hundreds or thousands of people is a challenge, as disruptions of these events may result in huge material losses or even loss of life. We face the classic situation where disruptions...
What to implement first: ISO 22301 or ISO 27001?
Implementing ISO management system standards, even with the help of toolkits and consultants, may be a challenging task. In practice,...
Implementing ISO management system standards, even with the help of toolkits and consultants, may be a challenging task. In practice, sometimes it seems appropriate to enhance preparedness and protection in several areas of an organization,...
Enabling communication during disruptive incidents according to ISO 22301
Rhand Leal
Disasters and disruptive business incidents push people and organizations to their limits, and one of the first impacted elements are...
Disasters and disruptive business incidents push people and organizations to their limits, and one of the first impacted elements are communication systems. Depending on incident type and magnitude, increased demand for communication, or communication infrastructure...
Organizational resilience according to ISO 22316 – Is this another buzzword?
Both management systems standards on information security (ISO 27001) and business continuity (ISO 22301), while trying to encompass the whole...
Both management systems standards on information security (ISO 27001) and business continuity (ISO 22301), while trying to encompass the whole organization, still lack components and dimensions to holistically protect an enterprise. The concept of resilience...
Beyond the BCM Manager: Additional roles to consider during the disruptive incident
A crisis or disaster is something that no organization, regardless of its size, wants to go through. Because of this,...
A crisis or disaster is something that no organization, regardless of its size, wants to go through. Because of this, many of them adopt business continuity practices, such as Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) based...
ISO 22301 Case study in the travel industry: Business continuity as a necessity in customer care
Business continuity protects an organization from the impacts of business disruptions. The goal is to provide a certain level of...
Business continuity protects an organization from the impacts of business disruptions. The goal is to provide a certain level of products and services to customers during disruptions. But, what do industries need in order to...
Incidents in ISO 22301 vs. ISO 27001 vs. ISO 20000 vs. ISO 28003
Management system standards, especially those dealing with security and interruptions of business processes, use the term “incident management.” As these...
Management system standards, especially those dealing with security and interruptions of business processes, use the term “incident management.” As these management system standards deal with different aspects of managing business processes (IT Service Management, Information...
