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    Business Continuity Policy

    Continuity, recovery and resilience requirements (Annex A 5.29/5.30).

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    About this Business Continuity Policy

    The Business Continuity Policy is a ready-to-use ISO 27001:2022 template designed to help organizations document and operate the controls expected by certification auditors. It directly supports Annex A 5.29/5.30 of the ISO 27001 Annex A control set.

    Continuity, recovery and resilience requirements (Annex A 5.29/5.30). Use it as the baseline for your ISMS documentation, tailor it to your scope and risk appetite, then maintain it through your normal document-control process.

    What's inside

    • - Pre-written purpose, scope and policy statements
    • - Roles and responsibilities aligned with ISO 27001:2022
    • - Control requirements mapped to Annex A 5.29/5.30
    • - Review, approval and version-control sections
    • - Editable Word (.docx) version in the Document Pack

    Who is this for

    • - Companies pursuing ISO 27001:2022 certification
    • - ISMS managers and information security leads
    • - Consultants delivering ISO 27001 implementations
    • - Auditors preparing evidence packs for Stage 1 / Stage 2
    • - SaaS and tech teams formalizing security policies

    ISO 27001:2022 relevance

    • Annex A 5.29 - Information security during disruption
    • Annex A 5.30 - ICT readiness for business continuity
    • Annex A 8.13 - Information backup
    • Annex A 8.14 - Redundancy of information processing facilities

    How to customise

    • - Define critical services, RTO, and RPO targets.
    • - Reference the BIA and continuity plans that support this policy.
    • - Set test frequency for continuity and recovery exercises.
    • - Assign continuity ownership and invocation authority.

    Evidence auditors may expect

    • - Business impact analysis with RTO/RPO per service
    • - Continuity and recovery plans with named roles
    • - Test reports and corrective actions
    • - Backup and restore test evidence

    Auditor may ask

    Q.What are your critical services and recovery objectives?
    Q.When was the last continuity test, and what were the findings?
    Q.How are backups tested for restorability?
    Q.Who can invoke the continuity plan and how?

    These are realistic questions an external auditor may use to test the control. Your answer must be supported by the evidence listed above.

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