Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:53PM The final editing process is now underway for ISO 22301 Societal Security - Business Continuity management systems - requirements. As only minor editorial changes are allowed at this stage, the final publication will be substantially as was seen at FDIS stage. We expect publication to be in mid-May 2012 once final proofing has been completed.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 9:25AM I am very pleased to say that ISO 22301 has been approved and will now proceed to publication as anticipated. This is excellent news and we now have an International Standard for business continuity for the very first time.
This is a requirements standard and we anticipate that the audit bodies will already be preparing for its implementation and will soon offer accredited certification against the standard. Those already certified to BS 25999-2 will have an opportunity to transition to the new standard but the details of this have still to be formally worked out.
ISO 22313 which provides guidance to ISO 22301 is currently at DIS stage and available for comments on the BSI web site or through your national standards body if outside the UK.
Our ISO 22301 training course is available!
ISO22301, Societal security, Standards, training Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:08PM As ISO 22301 moves slowly towards finalisation, it is worth highlighting that there will be a considerable effort by BSI and others to publicise the new standard. For those of you with an interest, there are events planned as follows:
I am sure that there are others but as I have been asked to speak at these, I thought it worthy of mentioning them. I will provide more details as we have them.
ISO will also publish an article within the internal ISO magazine in order to publicise the new standard across the ISO organisation itself. I am sure that other popular sources of information on business continuity will be publishing articles too.
As far as the FDIS is concerned, we have spotted a few minor quirks that need sorting out before final publication. There are some rather oddly worded notes at the start of each section which are simply confusing and we will seek to have these removed and the pagination is a little strange in that some headings appear at the foot of the page rather than being kept with the relevant text. These are minor points of administration and should not present any difficulty.
FDIS, ISO22301, Societal security, Standards, business continuity Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 7:12PM ISO22301 has moved another stage closer to final publication as it has now been released as an FDIS. Only minor amendments are allowed at this stage but it is still subject to a final vote to ratify it for final publication.
ISO22301, Societal security, Standards Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 4:01PM ISO have issued a press release confirming the publication of ISO 22320:2011, Societal security – Emergency management – Requirements for incident response which I had mentioned in my recent post. You can see the press release here: http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1496
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