Helping you to assess your BCM plan to BS ISO 22301

BSI Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool

BSI Business Continuity Self-assessment ToolHelping you to assess your BCM plan to BS ISO 22301

BSI’s Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool has been updated and now includes several additional benefits. This tool provides expert guidance enabling you to assess your BCMS across multiple sites and assign responsibilities to multiple users. It does this by allowing you to systematically work you

through your BCMS.

Many organizations consider themselves prepared for

interruptions, only to discover shortcomings at the last minute.

The updated Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool gives you

the confidence you need to know that you are fully prepared for

the worst.

The Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool contains questions

that take you through each clause of the latest international

requirements standard for business continuity management

systems – BS ISO 22301.

BS ISO 22301 provides requirements for a BCMS that will enable

your organization to prepare for disruptive incidents that might

otherwise prevent you from achieving your objectives.

The standard can be used to assess your organization’s ability

to meet continuity needs and obligations. It can also help you

establish a BCM policy that provides a framework for

implementing effective business continuity arrangements.

• It saves time by allowing you to work smarter as you review

your business continuity management system (BCMS)

• It provides guidance on designing a BCMS from strategy to

operations and external audit following the internationally

recognised standard BS ISO 22301 or the British Standard

BS 25999-2 it replaces

• It allows you to assess risk within your organization as a

whole or in separate departments

• Create a powerful framework for reviewing and assessing

the system’s effectiveness under pressure

• Identify elements that are working well but also elements

that need attention or have been omitted

• It enables you to compare different parts of your organization

for benchmarking purposes

• It provides cost-effective expert guidance and presents an

easy-to-use tool for staff to work with at a time that suits

them best

• Smooth the path towards certification

Why subscribe to BSI’s Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool?

Fact: Every year, thousands of organizations experience disruption to their operations lasting longer than five working days.

Fact: Disruption takes many forms, from the unexpected departure of a key member of staff to a large-scale terrorist attack.

Fact: Evidence has shown that the share price of businesses with audited business continuity management systems (BCMS) in place recovers faster after disruption than those without.

• Single user price valid for one year £795 +VAT

• Five (5) user price valid for one year £1,995 +VAT

• Enterprise licences and consultant packages also available

For a tailored quote for your organization please contact us

To subscribe, obtain a quote or sign up for a FREE trial, please

fill in the online form at:

Tel: +44 20 8996 9001

Email: info@bsigroup.com

bsigroup.com/bcmonline

How much does it cost?

What does the new Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool contain?

Use the Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool to work

through the requirements of BS ISO 22301 or BS 25999-2,

making sure you have best practice in place.

The revised kit includes:

• The latest international requirements standard for business

continuity management - BS ISO 22301

• Reports to identify gaps, strengths and weaknesses

• Self-assessment questionnaires around BS ISO 22301

and/or BS 25999-2

• Means to create instant reports based on your BCMS

• The market leading Business Continuity standards

– BS ISO 22301 and BS 25999: Part 1 and Part 2

Updated online library to include well respected guidance

from BSI such as:

• PD 25111 Guidance on human aspects of business continuity

• PD 25222 Guidance on supply chain continuity

• PD 25666 Guidance on exercising and testing for continuity

and contingency programmes

• PD 25888 Guidance on organization recovery following

disruptive incidents

• The Route Map to Business Continuity Management

• The Business Continuity Exercises and Tests book

How do I use the Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool?

The BSI Business Continuity Self-assessment Tool is a self-

contained online resource that you access with a user name

and password. It allows you to allocate responsibilities with time

schedules and manage user access to sensitive information.

It also provides the means to create instant reports based on your

BCMS, which means you can document improvements over time,

view differences in compliance and identify gaps in your BCMS –

at a glance.

You will find help on specific requirements, including contextual

guidance for each question. Once you’ve answered the questions,

you can generate various automatic reports. These include:

• Summary report – including graphs showing progress

towards completion

• Detailed report – showing the list of questions plus answers

and comments

• Customized reports – design your own reports to show

specific information, such as outstanding actions or

unanswered questions

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and government to represent UK interests and to make sure that

British, European and international standards are useful, relevant

and authoritative.

BSI has been instrumental in the creation, development and

promotion of instantly recognizable and well-renowned standards:

BS IS0 22301 for business continuity management

BS ISO/IEC 27001 for information security management

BS EN ISO 9001 for quality management

BS EN ISO 14001 for environmental management

BS OHSAS 18001 for occupational health and safety management

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necessary solutions to turn standards of best practice into habits

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Standards Body and a founding member of the International

Organization of Standardization (ISO). Over a century later it

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