Standards & Best Practices Continuity Compliance

Risk Assessment Practitioners Offered COSO Perspective

October 27, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

by Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer Just recently, the Committee of the Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) produced a new “thought paper” on risk management, offering ideas on how companies can better address and implement risk mitigation efforts. The Treadway Commission (… also known as the National commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting) is a special committee formed in 1985 in the United States to investigate the underlying causes of fraudulent financial reporting. The commission was named after its chairman, former SEC commissioner … [Read more...]

ISO 22301 vs. BS 25999: Shared Insights

September 19, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Over the last few months, our staff has been observing an interesting newsletter published by a business continuity planning services firm in South Africa. The firm is called ContinuitySA and represents the increasing presence that business continuity planning, disaster preparedness and organizational resilience is already playing in South Africa ---- as well as the importance that continuity and compliance issues hold in the global village where so many of our companies serve their targeted markets. Our staff suggests including this newsletter as part of the suggested reading library for … [Read more...]

BS25999 to ISO 22301

August 8, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance 1 Comment

by Lisa DuBrock In May 2012, the International Organization of Standards (ISO) released a new standard for Societal Security, ISO 22301:2012. This standard is intended to provide the global continuity community a baseline standard for best practices in business continuity management systems. The new standard is expected in the near future to replace BS 25999-2:2007. This standard developed by the British standards Institution is closely aligned with the Business Continuity Institute's – Good Practices Guideline. It is expected that in the near future, BS 25999 will be … [Read more...]

Business Continuity Management System Mapped to Related ISO Standards

June 27, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

With the recent release of the new ISO 22301 standard, our staff has begun to receive inquiries from our readers interested in pursuing certification of ISO 22301 --- but, whose organizations may have already certification status in other ISO standards – and how would that relate to the pursuit of an ISO 22301 certification? Or, can a BCMS be considered jointly with other management systems? While the answer to the question certainly requires more study and research regarding each individual organization, our staff would at least like to offer some response to those readers. To … [Read more...]

ISO 22301 BCM Elements Mapped to Other Related Business Continuity Standards

June 27, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The table below represents a methodology of how the ISO 22301 standard can be shown to be in relationship with other business continuity related standards regarding the creation of an integrated management system within an organization. The “BCM System Element” titled column in this table represents a listing of the normal components that more or less all business continuity management (BCM) standards propose to represent. All of the other columns attempt to list or identify where in each standard listed you will find in what section or chapter reference each basic BCM System Element … [Read more...]

ISO 22301 Questions? Get Answers from the Experts.

May 18, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As posted earlier, the ISO 22301 is now available for purchase and is expected to be a valuable resource opportunity for those companies seeking to improve their capabilities in support of achieving their business continuity goals and objectives. To further assist that process, the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and the British Standards Institute (BSI) have scheduled a joint webinar to hopefully answer some of the many questions that many of the organizations around the world are beginning to ask concerning this new ISO 22301 standard. A panel of leading international experts on … [Read more...]

BSI ISO 22301 Now Available for Purchase

May 17, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

In response to several requests from our readers, our staff would like to announce that business continuity managers and planning teams can now purchase the new international standard for business continuity management (ISO 22301:2012 "Societal Security, Business Continuity Management Systems Requirements") from BSI. Click here to do so…. The BSI group references the standard as BS ISO 22301 and points out that this new standard identifies the fundamentals of business continuity management and provides a basis for understanding, developing and implementing a business continuity … [Read more...]

ATT Becomes First U.S. Private Sector Company Certified to a DHS-Selected Standard under the PS-Prep™ Program

March 14, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The DHS PS-Prep™ program has been on this website’s radar screen for quite some time, and, with the announcement of this press release by DHS regarding ATT’s certification to one of the standards selected by DHS under the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Program (PS-Prep™) an important step has been taken, as Secretary Napolitano states “…to further enhance the readiness and resiliency of our Nation." AT&T's certification is the first under the PS-Prep™ program, administered by DHS' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The PS-Prep™ program enables private … [Read more...]

ASIS offers PS-Prep and Conformity Assessment Webinar Presented by Dr. Marc Seigel

October 25, 2011 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As part of this website’s recognition to the PS-Prep program and in support of the statement that conformity to International Standards gives confidence and facilitates access to global markets, our staff would like to inform our readers of an ASIS sponsored webinar entitled “Buyer Beware – Standards, Conformity Assessment and Certification”. This webinar is presented by Dr. Marc Siegel and is offered free of charge. Before you consider the PS-Prep Program, certification of your organization, or even becoming a certified lead auditor, become more aware of the globally accepted … [Read more...]

ISO 28002 Resilience in the Supply Chain Standard Approved

August 5, 2011 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Contributed by: Lisa DuBrock It seems every day ISO approves new standards. However, the approval of ISO 28002 (Resilience in the Supply Chain) is a standard to be watched in this space. The Technical Committee ISO/TC 8 of the International Organization of Standards (ISO) has worked hard to get this standard adopted. It is based on SPC.1 (Organizational Resilience Management System), one of the PS-Prep standards, and provides true linkage to a number of other Standards, including ISO 28000 Security in the Supply Chain and ISO 31000 Principles and Guidelines of Risk Management. … [Read more...]