Validating Your Business Continuity Plan: Ensuring your BCP actually works

CHAPTER 2: STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

“Validation is the process of assuring your readiness for a disruptive event or crisis.” – (Sterling, et al., 2012, p. 171)

By adopting a set of standards or guidelines and applying them to business continuity, organisations ensure that they approach BCM in a consistent manner. This naturally applies to validation, as much as any other aspects of BCM. There are an abundance of options available to select from, including the international standard ISO22301. However, in the case of this standard, it is not the intent to define a rigid structure on which a business continuity management system (BCMS) must be based. Indeed, it provides a flexible framework enabling organisations to create a BCMS which is suitable ...