Business Continuity Management step by step

BCM with verinice means using the ISO 22301:2019 or the BSI 200-4 standards to screen your company. Both standards provide procedures and rules with which you define, control, monitor, maintain and continuously improve the availability of processes and thus business continuity. This is exactly what you document in verinice. As a result, you succeed in establishing and maintaining a process-oriented emergency plan.

The structured approach enables you to:

• The documentation: Identify core processes, record criticality data and define failure scenarios, determine recovery.
• The analysis: To prepare and conduct the Business Impact Analysis, analyse process and resource dependencies.
• Responsibilities and tasks: Document process owners or persons with overall responsibility. Record staff members (ex- and internally) and tasks assigned to them for improvements or in case of crisis.
• Important documents: Include relevant documents for emergency management via the verinice document repository. The verinice.TEAM recommends taking a look at the materials provided by the BSI on emergency management. You can adapt these for your organisation.
• Work more efficiently: Reduce complexity and time by using the basic protection or ISM/ISO perspective. In addition, this enables direct collaboration between information security officers and emergency management teams.