ISO 22301 · Business continuity
It requires analysing the impact of a disruption, defining continuity strategies and testing them through exercises.
- Sectors
- Finance · Telecommunications · Logistics
- Edition
- ISO 22301:2019
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It requires assessing and treating information security risks and declaring the applicability of the Annex A controls.

Accredited scope published in the Trust Center · 30-06-2026
Certificates and sites are different units. Sums across standards do not count unique companies or locations.
ISO Survey 2024 · Overview · Corte: 31/12/2024
Explore the data · CSV · 2024The transition to the 2022 edition closed on 31 October 2025: every valid accredited certificate must be on that edition. Annex A has 93 controls in four themes.
Initial certification follows these steps.
What you are asked for, what activities you carry out, and at which sites and in which country you operate.
In writing, sized to the standard, the activities, the sites and the country.
The assigned team assesses the documentation and the operation with evidence.
A function separate from the audit team decides. The certificate can be checked by its code.
Continuity of the cycle is agreed for your case.
Issuance depends on the audit and an independent decision.
There is no list price: the proposal is sized on standard, scope, sites, headcount, activities, system complexity and delivery mode. The request is reviewed first and the proposal is then issued.
Findings are documented and classified. The organization submits correction, root cause and corrective action with evidence; the audit team evaluates it and only then does the file go to decision.
A competent function separate from the audit team. Those who audit do not decide, and no outcome is anticipated before that review.
In the public certificate register, by code.
It requires analysing the impact of a disruption, defining continuity strategies and testing them through exercises.
It requires a service management system that plans, delivers and improves the IT services agreed with the customer.
It requires governing how the organization develops, provides or uses artificial intelligence, with assessed risks, Annex A controls and human oversight.

The proposal arrives in writing, with the standard, the scope and the timeline.