ISO 22301: Business Continuity Management
Cyberattack, fire, major outage, unavailability of a key supplier: the standard ISO 22301 structures your ability to withstand disruption and resume your essential activities. We support you step by step toward a compliant and truly operational approach.
What is the ISO 22301 standard?
ISO 22301 is the international standard for Management System for Business Continuity (SMCA). It defines the requirements for planning, implementing, operating, and improving a framework that enables your organization to continue its critical activities during an incident and return to normal operations as quickly as possible.
Where a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan (PCA / PRA) is the concrete deliverable you activate on the day of an incident, ISO 22301 is the governance framework that ensures this plan is relevant, tested, maintained, and managed over time. The standard follows the same “Plan-Do-Check-Act” logic as ISO 27001 and the SMSI, which makes integration easier if you already manage information security.
Why structure your business continuity?
Regulatory requirements
Operational resilience is expected by frameworks such as DORA (finance) or NIS2 (essential and important entities). ISO 22301 provides a structured response.
Customer trust
Demonstrating that you can meet your commitments even in the event of a disaster reassures your customers, partners, and clients, and differentiates you during calls for tender.
Reduced downtime
A structured approach shortens the recovery time for essential activities and limits financial, operational, and reputational losses.
Cyber resilience
Combined with a cyber crisis management well-tested, business continuity business continuity turns a potentially fatal attack into a controlled incident.
Who is this approach for?
ISO 22301 is universal: any organization, regardless of its size or sector (SME, mid-sized company, large group, local authority, public sector, healthcare, finance, industry), can build a compliant SMCA. It primarily concerns executive management, RSSI, responsables des risques, DSI and PCA managers who must guarantee continuity of operations. If you operate a critical service, rely heavily on your IT system, or are subject to sector-specific resilience requirements, this approach directly concerns you.
Our methodology
We start from your reality: your activities, your dependencies, your business constraints. No theoretical documentation that sits in a drawer. We build a continuity framework usable when it matters. Our approach is based on risk analysis (method EBIOS Risk Manager where applicable), on concrete scenarios, and on exercises that put your teams in real-life situations. Whether you are aiming for simple compliance or ISO 22301 certification by an accredited body, we adapt the effort to your objective and maturity.
The 6 steps toward ISO 22301 compliance
Context & scope
Definition of the SMCA scope, stakeholders, and applicable regulatory requirements. Scoping with leadership and management commitment.
BIA, Impact Analysis
The Business Impact Analysis identifies your essential activities, their dependencies, and tolerable interruption times (RTO / RPO). It is the foundation of the entire approach.
Continuity strategies
Selection of strategies to protect and resume each critical activity: human resources, fallback sites, systems, suppliers, and the minimum service level to maintain.
Formalization of the PCA
Drafting of continuity and recovery plans, activation procedures, and the decision-making chain. Clear documents that can be used under pressure.
Tests & exercises
Testing the framework through realistic exercises (simulations, technical tests, crisis exercises). We verify that the plan holds up in practice, not just on paper.
Continuous improvement
Internal audits, management reviews, and operational readiness maintenance. The SMCA evolves with your organization and remains ready for potential certification.
Why choose BCIT for support?
Field expertise
Our consultants master both business continuity and cybersecurity. A coherent framework, not an approach disconnected from your real risks.
Pragmatic approach
We build an operational PCA that is proportionate to your context, without unnecessary documentation overload. Concrete, usable in real-life situations.
Integrated vision
Continuity, security, and compliance move forward together: assessment or external RSSI according to your needs.
Estimate the price of your certification
Interactive calculator: company size, sector, additional compliance requirements... get a price range in just a few clicks.
Price estimate
Si la certification n'est pas obtenue en raison de nos actions, nous vous remboursons l'intégralité du montant versé.
Prêt(e) à renforcer votre continuité d'activité ?
Prenons 15 minutes pour une première discussion. Nous comprendrons vos activités critiques, vos contraintes et votre niveau de maturité, puis vous proposerons un accompagnement ISO 22301 réaliste et sur mesure.
ISO 22301: Business Continuity Management
Cyberattack, fire, major outage, unavailability of a key supplier: the standard ISO 22301 structures your ability to withstand disruption and resume your essential activities. We support you step by step toward a compliant and truly operational approach.
What is the ISO 22301 standard?
ISO 22301 is the international standard for Management System for Business Continuity (SMCA). It defines the requirements for planning, implementing, operating, and improving a framework that enables your organization to continue its critical activities during an incident and return to normal operations as quickly as possible.
Where a Plan de Continuité & de Reprise d'Activité (PCA / PRA) is the concrete deliverable you activate on the day of an incident, ISO 22301 is the governance framework that ensures this plan is relevant, tested, maintained, and managed over time. The standard follows the same “Plan-Do-Check-Act” logic as ISO 27001 and the SMSI, which makes integration easier if you already manage information security.
Why structure your business continuity?
Regulatory requirements
Operational resilience is expected by frameworks such as DORA (finance) or NIS2 (essential and important entities). ISO 22301 provides a structured response.
Customer trust
Demonstrating that you can meet your commitments even in the event of a disaster reassures your customers, partners, and clients, and differentiates you during calls for tender.
Reduced downtime
A structured approach shortens the recovery time for essential activities and limits financial, operational, and reputational losses.
Cyber resilience
Combined with a cyber crisis management well-tested, business continuity business continuity turns a potentially fatal attack into a controlled incident.
Who is this approach for?
ISO 22301 is universal: any organization, regardless of its size or sector (SME, mid-sized company, large group, local authority, public sector, healthcare, finance, industry), can build a compliant SMCA. It primarily concerns executive management, RSSI, responsables des risques, DSI and PCA managers who must guarantee continuity of operations. If you operate a critical service, rely heavily on your IT system, or are subject to sector-specific resilience requirements, this approach directly concerns you.
Our methodology
We start from your reality: your activities, your dependencies, your business constraints. No theoretical documentation that sits in a drawer. We build a continuity framework usable when it matters. Our approach is based on risk analysis (method EBIOS Risk Manager where applicable), on concrete scenarios, and on exercises that put your teams in real-life situations. Whether you are aiming for simple compliance or ISO 22301 certification by an accredited body, we adapt the effort to your objective and maturity.
The 6 steps toward ISO 22301 compliance
Contexte & périmètre
Definition of the SMCA scope, stakeholders, and applicable regulatory requirements. Scoping with leadership and management commitment.
BIA, Impact Analysis
The Business Impact Analysis identifies your essential activities, their dependencies, and tolerable interruption times (RTO / RPO). It is the foundation of the entire approach.
Continuity strategies
Selection of strategies to protect and resume each critical activity: human resources, fallback sites, systems, suppliers, and the minimum service level to maintain.
Formalization of the PCA
Drafting of continuity and recovery plans, activation procedures, and the decision-making chain. Clear documents that can be used under pressure.
Tests & exercices
Testing the framework through realistic exercises (simulations, technical tests, crisis exercises). We verify that the plan holds up in practice, not just on paper.
Continuous improvement
Internal audits, management reviews, and operational readiness maintenance. The SMCA evolves with your organization and remains ready for potential certification.
Why choose BCIT for support?
Field expertise
Our consultants master both business continuity and cybersecurity. A coherent framework, not an approach disconnected from your real risks.
Pragmatic approach
We build an operational PCA that is proportionate to your context, without unnecessary documentation overload. Concrete, usable in real-life situations.
Integrated vision
Continuity, security, and compliance move forward together: assessment or external RSSI according to your needs.
Estimate the price of your certification
Interactive calculator: company size, sector, additional compliance requirements... get a price range in just a few clicks.
Price estimate
Si la certification n'est pas obtenue en raison de nos actions, nous vous remboursons l'intégralité du montant versé.
Prêt(e) à renforcer votre continuité d'activité ?
Prenons 15 minutes pour une première discussion. Nous comprendrons vos activités critiques, vos contraintes et votre niveau de maturité, puis vous proposerons un accompagnement ISO 22301 réaliste et sur mesure.