ISO/IEC 27031: 2011
ISO/IEC 27031: 2011: ICT Readiness for Business Continuity
How Can ICT Protect Your Business Assets?
Could your business cope without information and communications technology?
With the outbreak of Swine Flu and the risk of a pandemic later in the year, organisations are being forced to review their existing resilience plans; appoint deputies for key roles and implement new remote working strategies.
Most organisations are becoming more dependent on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Disruption to ICT can therefore be a major concern; no access to email or the Internet can damage your organisation's ability to operate and undermine its reputation.
The consequences of any major incident can be very significant from a business or service perspective.
How do you cope? Simple, you develop an ICT Continuity Strategy.
ISO/IEC 27031: 2011
ISO/IEC 27031:2011 is the new international standard for ICT Readiness for Business Continuity.
ICT Continuity Management is an important part of your organisations structure and supports your Business Continuity Management (BCM) process. BCM ensures that your organisation’s processes are protected from disruption and are able to respond positively and effectively when disruption occurs.
In the current economic climate, many organisations are being faced with a lack of resources; early retirement and redundancies. By implementing ISO/IEC 27031: 2011 throughout your organisation, you are ensuring that you have the processes in place to ensure continuity.
ICT Continuity Management makes sure that ICT and services are resilient and can be recovered within timescales required by and agreed with the senior management.
Effective BCM depends on ICT Continuity Management to ensure that your organisation can meet its objectives at all times, particularly during times of disruption. To be successful, both BCM and ICT Continuity Management have to become embedded within the organisation’s culture.
BCM and ICT Continuity Management form an important part of effective management, sound governance and organisational prudence. Senior management is responsible for maintaining the ability of the organisation to continue to function in the face of disruption. Many organisations also have a statutory or regulatory duty to maintain effective risk-based controls, including BCM.
Sapphire and ISO/IEC 27031: 2011
ICT Continuity Management is a vital part of your ICT strategy; Sapphire has developed a simple and effective approach to integrate ICT continuity based on your risk appetite.
The benefits of effective ICT continuity are:
- Understand your threats and vulnerabilities
- Identify the potential impacts of ICT disruption
- Improved collaboration between business managers and ICT providers (internal/ external)
- Enhance competence in ICT staff by demonstrating credible responses through exercising ICT continuity plans and testing arrangements
- Assurance to management that agreed levels of ICT services with adequate support/communications re vital in the event of a disruption
- Confidence in the BCM strategy through linking investment in ICT solutions
- Ensure that ICT services are cost-effective
- Enhance your reputation for prudence and efficiency
- Competitive advantage through the demonstrated ability to deliver business continuity and maintain product/ service delivery in times of disruption
- Documents stakeholders’ expectations and their relationships with, ICT services.
ICT Continuity Management is a vital part of your ICT strategy; Sapphire has developed a simple and effective approach to integrate ICT continuity based on your risk appetite.
For an informal discussion with a Sapphire Business Consultant, please email info@sapphire.net with ISO/IEC 27031: 2011 in the subject header.
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