Business Continuity Management Using the BS 25999 Standard
28th November 2008
BS 25999 Standard
The BS 25999 standard is intended to provide assistance to the person responsible for implementing business continuity management within an organization.It is broken into two parts.
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The Emergence of BS25999
In November 2006 an official standard was published to replace PAS56. This was BS 25999 part 1.
Part 1: describes a framework and process for the Business Continuity practioner to use and offers a range of good practice recommendations.
It was produced through a Subcommittee comprising of British Standards Institution, representatives from a number of organizations and industry bodies.
A year later, in November 2007, a second part was published, stemming from the same subcommittee.
Part 2: can be used to assess an organization’s ability to meet regulatory and other requirements, and as such is the basis for certification.
Is It A Standard?
Yes. In fact BS25999 actually embraces two standards: BS 25999-1 and BS 25999-2. The former is a code of practice (which is the document based upon PAS56, as desribed above) and the latter is a specification for business continuity management.