Business continuity — BCMS
ISO 22301 — run your business continuity management system
ISO 22301:2019 is the international standard for a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) — the framework for preparing your organization to respond to, and recover from, disruptions such as cyber incidents, outages, supply-chain failures and natural events. It follows the ISO Annex SL high-level structure shared by ISO 27001 and other management-system standards, and operates on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) improvement cycle.
HAiCapita helps you build and operate the BCMS and assemble the evidence; the certificate itself is always granted by an accredited third-party certification body after their audit of your continuity management system — never by us. We get you audit-ready.
What ISO 22301 covers
22301 follows the standard management-system shape (context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and improvement) applied to business continuity. At its core sits the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) — identifying critical activities and the impact of their disruption over time — together with a continuity risk assessment. From these you set recovery objectives: the Recovery Time Objective (RTO, how quickly an activity must resume) and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO, the maximum tolerable data loss). You then develop and document business continuity plans and procedures, and you must exercise and test them so they actually work when needed. PDCA keeps the whole system under continual review.
How HAiCapita helps
Adopt a pre-built ISO 22301 control library and tailor it to your scope. Run the Business Impact Analysis and continuity risk assessment, set and track RTO/RPO targets per critical activity, and maintain your business continuity plans as living documents. Schedule and record continuity exercises and tests so you have proof they were performed and lessons captured. Run gap analysis to see exactly where you stand before the auditor arrives, and collect evidence on a schedule and on demand — including screenshots and connector pulls — versioned with chain-of-custody in a tamper-evident (WORM) audit trail. An AI copilot drafts plans and policies and accelerates remediation.
One control set, many standards
Because ISO 22301 shares the Annex SL structure with ISO 27001, the two are natural companions. Author a control once and crosswalk it to ISO/IEC 27001 (information security), SOC 2 and the CBE Financial Cybersecurity Framework — so the same incident-response, resilience and recovery controls and their evidence satisfy your BCMS audit and every other framework they map to, instead of maintaining each program in a silo.
Sovereign — SaaS or fully air-gapped
Run your BCMS as multi-tenant SaaS in-region, or fully air-gapped on your own infrastructure with no external egress and no phone-home — the same platform either way, with entitlements from a locally-verified signed license. For regulated, financial-sector and public-sector organizations in Egypt and MENA, your impact analyses, continuity plans and exercise records stay entirely within your jurisdiction.
Frequently asked questions
Does HAiCapita certify my organization for ISO 22301?
No — and no software can. HAiCapita gets you audit-ready: it provides the control library, business impact analysis, continuity plans, exercise records, gap analysis and the evidence an auditor needs. The ISO 22301 certificate is issued by an accredited independent certification body after it audits your business continuity management system.
What are RTO and RPO?
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is how quickly a critical activity must be resumed after a disruption. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data loss your organization can tolerate, measured as a point in time before the disruption. You derive both from the Business Impact Analysis, and HAiCapita lets you set and track them per critical activity as part of your BCMS.
Can I align ISO 22301 with ISO 27001?
Yes. ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 share the same Annex SL management-system structure, so they integrate cleanly. HAiCapita lets you author a control once and crosswalk it across both — and across SOC 2 and the CBE framework — so the same resilience and incident-response controls and their evidence satisfy your BCMS and ISMS audits at the same time.
Is ISO 22301 available in an air-gapped deployment?
Yes. The full ISO 22301 capability runs in the fully air-gapped, on-premise deployment — no external egress, entitlements from a locally-verified signed license — so your impact analyses, continuity plans and exercise records stay entirely within your jurisdiction.