The ISO 27001 Business Continuity Policy Template provides the practical framework you need to respond to service disruptions, IT outages, and major incidents. It defines clear recovery objectives, team roles, and operational steps to ensure your organisation continues to function when things go wrong.
A critical requirement under ISO 27001:2022, this document is ready to customise, approve, and present to clients, partners, and external certification auditors.
Why Use Policy Templates Before Automation Tools?
If you are a startup, tech business, or AI company with under 10 people, committing to platforms like Vanta or Drata early on often adds unnecessary complexity. You need practical operational policies in place first.
- Establish Clear Rules: Define how your business handles downtime and recovery before configuring automated monitoring tools.
- Control Early Costs: Avoid high annual software fees while building out your core information security management system.
- Maintain Direct Ownership: Keep clean, editable Word documents that remain your intellectual property without vendor lock-in.
What the Template Covers
This policy covers the essential business continuity requirements expected by certification auditors:
- Information Security Continuity: Maintaining information security controls during a crisis (Annex A 5.29).
- ICT Readiness: Ensuring technical infrastructure and data backups support business continuity targets (Annex A 5.30).
- Roles and Responsibilities: Assigning clear incident response duties and communication chains.
- Testing and Verification: Requirements for regular testing, exercises, and post-incident reviews.
- Standard Alignment: Full compatibility with both ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 22301 principles.
Business Continuity Policy Template Example
Business Continuity Policy Template FAQ
The ISO 27001 Business Continuity Policy Template is in Microsoft Word format
No. The ISO 27001 Business Continuity Policy Template is designed to be easy to implement and easy to configure. It comes with an easy to follow step by step guide. You are provided with a free hour of training if you need it.
It depends on what you are trying to achieve. It works as a stand alone template but is designed to be part of a pack of ISO 27001 Templates Toolkit that meet the needs of your business. We sell the ISO 27001 Templates Toolkit at a significant discount.
We estimate that on average it will take you less about 60 seconds to configure it and 15 minutes to deploy it. The templates require information that you know so there is nothing complicated.
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