ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management Systems compliance software
Assess and evidence your business continuity management system — from business impact analysis to exercising — against every ISO 22301 requirement.
What ISO 22301 requires
ISO 22301:2019 specifies the requirements for a business continuity management system (BCMS): the policies, people, analysis and plans an organisation needs to keep priority activities running through disruption and to recover in an orderly way. It is the certifiable international benchmark for business continuity.
The heart of the standard is Clause 8: business impact analysis, risk assessment, continuity strategies and solutions, documented plans with a defined response structure, and an exercise programme that proves the arrangements actually work. Certification bodies audit not just the documents but the evidence that the lifecycle operates.
Business continuity rarely stands alone. ISO 22301 shares its management-system skeleton with ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001, and its outputs — RTOs, dependencies, recovery solutions — feed directly into cyber-resilience obligations under frameworks such as NCA-ECC.
Who it applies to
- Organisations pursuing or holding ISO 22301 certification
- Entities whose regulators or customers require demonstrable business continuity arrangements
- Critical infrastructure, financial services, healthcare and logistics operators
- Suppliers asked to evidence continuity capability in tenders and contracts
At a glance
- Issuing body: ISO — current edition 2019
- Clauses assessed: 4–10 (context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation, improvement)
- Technical core: Clause 8: BIA, risk assessment, strategies, plans, exercising
- Certifiable: Yes — via accredited certification bodies
How GRCLens supports ISO 22301
ISO 22301 runs on the same shared control model as every other framework in GRCLens, so evidence captured once can satisfy several obligations at the same time.
Requirement-level BCMS catalogue
Every ISO 22301 requirement is pre-loaded at sub-clause depth — BIA outputs, RTO/MTPD, response structure, exercise reporting — with expected deliverables for each.
Control owners and accountability
Assign each requirement to a named owner with assessment status, comments and dated evidence, so the BCMS survives between audit cycles.
Assurance workflow
Connect operational systems and your ITSM to pull validation evidence, and track continuity gaps through an owned, verified remediation register.
Executive dashboard
A management-level view of BCMS posture — clause-by-clause implementation, exercise completion and open gaps — designed for top management review.
Bilingual operation
The full catalogue operates in English and Arabic with right-to-left layout, supporting Gulf entities with Arabic-language governance.
ISO 22301 frequently asked questions
Is ISO 22301 certifiable?
Yes. ISO 22301 is a requirements standard, so organisations can be audited and certified against it by accredited certification bodies. GRCLens prepares and organises the assessment and evidence; it does not issue certifications.
What is the difference between ISO 22301 and ISO 22361?
ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a business continuity management system and is certifiable. ISO 22361 provides guidance on crisis management capability — leadership, strategic decision-making and crisis communication — and is not certifiable. The two are complementary and GRCLens supports both.
Does GRCLens cover the business impact analysis?
Yes. The Clause 8 requirements are broken down to sub-clause level, including BIA methodology, prioritised activities with MTPD/RTO/RPO, dependency mapping and refresh triggers, each with expected deliverables and evidence.
Can ISO 22301 share evidence with ISO 27001 in GRCLens?
Yes. Both frameworks run on the same control model, so management-system evidence such as internal audits, management reviews and competence records can be reused where the requirements overlap.
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