ISO22301
Business Continuity That Survives Contact With a Real Incident
ISO 22301 is the management-system standard for business continuity. Run business impact analyses, continuity plans, and exercises in the BC/DR module — connected to the risks, incidents, and assets they protect.
Who needs it: Organizations whose customers, regulators, or boards demand proven resilience: financial services, healthcare, SaaS with uptime commitments, supply-chain-critical operations.
What is ISO 22301?
ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS): understanding what your organization cannot afford to lose (business impact analysis), planning to continue and recover (strategies and plans), and proving it works (exercises and testing) — wrapped in the same Annex SL management-system structure as ISO 27001.
Resilience has moved from checkbox to commercial requirement: enterprise customers ask for continuity evidence in due diligence, DORA makes operational resilience a legal obligation for EU financial entities, and boards ask harder questions after every public outage.
What you'll need to satisfy.
The core categories ISO 22301 auditors evaluate — and what we ship to cover each one.
BCMS Core (Clauses 4–10)
- Context, scope, and interested parties
- Leadership and BC policy
- BC objectives and planning
- Performance evaluation and improvement
Business Impact Analysis & Risk
- Prioritized activities and impact tolerances
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO)
- Dependency and resource mapping
- Continuity risk assessment
Strategy, Plans & Exercising
- Continuity strategies and solutions
- Documented response and recovery plans
- Exercise programme with recorded results
- Post-incident and post-exercise improvement
The problem we solve.
Why teams pick Compliance Enablers for ISO 22301 compliance.
Common challenges
- Continuity plans live in documents nobody has opened since the last audit
- BIAs are stale the moment they're written because they're disconnected from the asset inventory
- Exercises get skipped, and there's no record trail when auditors ask
- DORA and regulator expectations now demand tested resilience, not shelf-ware plans
What we provide
- BC/DR module: business impact analysis, continuity and recovery plans, dependencies
- Crisis Management module: response plans, communication protocols, exercise tracking, commander assignment
- Plans linked to the assets, risks, and vendors they cover — change one, see the impact
- Exercise and test records as audit-ready evidence
- ISO 22301 in the native framework library with cross-mapping to ISO 27001 A.5.29–A.5.30 and DORA resilience testing
- Incident Management integration: when a real event hits, the plan and the response live in one place
From kickoff to
audit-ready.
Step-by-step, exactly how we'll get you there.
BIA First
Identify prioritized activities, impact tolerances, and RTO/RPO in the BC/DR module — linked to real assets.
Strategy & Plans
Document continuity and recovery plans with owners, dependencies, and invocation criteria.
Crisis Wiring
Stand up crisis response: communication protocols, roles, and commander assignment.
Exercise & Evidence
Schedule exercises, record results, and convert findings into tracked improvements.
Certify & Maintain
Run the BCMS audit cycle on the same engine as your ISMS — shared management review.
framework
ISO 22301 shares the Annex SL structure with ISO 27001 — and its requirements overlap ISO 27001's ICT-readiness controls and DORA's resilience testing. One program, three obligations.
Certification-prep platforms rarely ship real BC/DR — it isn't needed for a SOC 2 badge. But your customers' due-diligence questionnaires ask about it, DORA legislates it, and ISO 27001's own Annex A expects it. We built the modules because an ISMS without continuity is theatre.
Key modules for ISO 22301.
Everything these modules ship, included in every tier.
ISO 22301 FAQ
Get ISO 22301
audit-ready.
BIA framework in days; exercised, evidenced BCMS in weeks. 513 pre-generated policies. 50+ evidence collectors. Everything you need to pass ISO 22301, out of the box.