Security and resilience — Business continuity management systems — Requirements
ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a management system intended to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
What the authority record establishes
ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a management system intended to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
Voluntary unless adopted by contract law policy or certification program
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
Supply-chain systems can support dependency records, scenarios, response, communication, and recovery evidence while accountable continuity management remains broader than software.
Affected operating stages
- Context
- Business Impact
- Strategy
- Plans
- Exercise
- Recovery
- Improvement
Capabilities to examine
Multi-Tier Supplier And Facility Mapping
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for multi-tier supplier and facility mapping.
Event Disruption And Incident Monitoring
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for event disruption and incident monitoring.
Scenario Simulation And Digital Twins
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for scenario simulation and digital twins.
Response Workflow Playbooks And Collaboration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for response workflow playbooks and collaboration.
Performance Analytics Benchmarks And Scorecards
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for performance analytics benchmarks and scorecards.
Affected buyer audiences
- continuity leaders
- supply-chain executives
- risk teams
- auditors
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
A platform mapping does not establish ISO 22301 conformity, certification readiness, or effective continuity.