ISO 22301 continuity, always exercise ready
Run business impact analyses, maintain continuity and recovery plans, schedule exercises, and keep certification evidence current across every critical activity.
- Critical activities with current RTO and RPO status
- Plan currency and approval health by business unit
- Exercise calendar with completion and finding closure rates
The business continuity challenge
Continuity programmes drift. Plans live in documents nobody opens, impact analyses age out, and exercise results never feed back into recovery objectives.
- Business impact analyses refreshed once and then forgotten
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives that nobody validates
- Continuity plans scattered across shared drives and inboxes
- Exercises run late, with findings that never close
- Supplier and cloud dependency risks left outside the BCMS scope
- Certification audits met with a last minute document hunt
One resilience system of record
Waaqi turns ISO 22301 into an operating rhythm, with owners, dates, evidence, and management review built in.
Keep the BIA alive
Score critical activities, dependencies, and tolerances on a recurring cycle with automatic reminders.
Make plans usable
Structured plans with roles, call trees, recovery steps, and versioned approvals in one repository.
Prove you test
Schedule exercises, capture results, and track corrective actions through to closure.
What you get inside Waaqi
Every module works from one control library, one evidence store, and one risk register.
Full ISO 22301 Clause Library
Clauses 4 to 10 pre-loaded with implementation guidance and evidence requirements.
Business Impact Analysis
Critical activity catalogue, dependency mapping, MTPD, RTO, and RPO scoring.
Continuity Risk Assessment
Disruption scenarios assessed and linked to treatment plans and continuity strategies.
Plan Repository
Business continuity, IT disaster recovery, and crisis communication plans with version control.
Exercise and Test Management
Tabletop, walkthrough, and full recovery tests scheduled with results and lessons learned.
Supplier Resilience
Assess third party and cloud dependencies against your recovery objectives.
Management Review
Objectives, metrics, nonconformities, and improvement actions ready for leadership sign off.
Multi-Framework Mapping
Reuse ISO 22301 evidence for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SAMA CSF, NCA ECC, and ADHICS.
From control definition to audit-ready evidence
Each step is owned, dated, and traceable, so nothing depends on a spreadsheet or a single person.
- Step 1
Define scope
Set the BCMS scope, interested parties, and continuity policy.
- Step 2
Analyse impact
Run the BIA and continuity risk assessment to set recovery objectives.
- Step 3
Build and test
Document strategies and plans, then exercise them on a governed schedule.
- Step 4
Improve and certify
Close findings, run management review, and export the certification evidence pack.
Certification ready, every cycle
Give your certification body a structured package covering every ISO 22301 clause, with linked evidence and audit trails.
- Auditor workspace with scoped, read-only access
- Clause by clause evidence mapping with owners and dates
- BIA history, recovery objectives, and approval records
- Exercise reports with findings and corrective action closure
- Management review minutes, objectives, and improvement logs
Board level answers without a fire drill
Boards, CISOs, and risk committees get the same numbers the compliance team works from.
Faster recovery
Validated objectives and rehearsed plans shorten real world downtime.
Regulator confidence
Resilience evidence that satisfies financial, healthcare, and critical infrastructure supervisors.
Lower audit effort
Continuous evidence removes the pre-audit scramble and shortens fieldwork.
Questions we get asked
What is ISO 22301?
ISO 22301 is the international standard for business continuity management systems (BCMS). It sets requirements for planning, establishing, operating, monitoring, and continually improving an organisation's ability to keep critical activities running through disruption.
Who needs ISO 22301 certification?
Any organisation that depends on continuity of service can certify, but it is most common in banking, healthcare, telecom, energy, government, and outsourcing providers where regulators or customers require proven resilience.
What is a business impact analysis?
A business impact analysis identifies critical activities, the resources they depend on, and the maximum tolerable period of disruption. It drives recovery time and recovery point objectives that continuity plans must meet.
How does Waaqi support ISO 22301?
Waaqi ships the full ISO 22301 clause library, BIA and continuity risk assessment workflows, plan repositories, exercise and test scheduling, and evidence packs ready for certification and surveillance audits.
Operationalise ISO 22301
See how Waaqi keeps business impact analyses, continuity plans, and exercises audit ready all year.