BIA, recovery strategies and BC plans in the same workspace as the ISMS. A risk identified in security becomes a recovery scenario, a critical asset feeds both.
The challenge
Most business continuity plans are written to satisfy a clause and then filed where nobody looks. They name recovery times that were never tested, list contacts who left two years ago, and assume the people reading them under pressure will somehow know which version is current. The first real outage is where you find out none of that holds.
Continuity only works when it shares data with the rest of your security programme. The critical assets in your BIA are the same assets your ISMS already tracks. A risk flagged in security is often the exact scenario your recovery plan needs to cover. When continuity sits in its own silo, you maintain everything twice and trust none of it. When it sits next to the ISMS, the plan stays honest because it moves with the operation.
Benefits at a glance
Identify critical processes and services, model disruption impact over time and set RTO, RPO, MTPD and MBCO per process. Dependencies on assets, suppliers and downstream services are part of the same model your ISMS already uses.
Derive recovery requirements directly from BIA results. Define strategies with resource needs, alternatives, costs and feasibility, and link each strategy to the processes, assets and suppliers it protects. Nothing exists in a separate planning silo.
Plan and run tabletop and full-scale exercises, capture findings and lessons learned, and feed them straight into the BC plan that was tested. ISO 22301, NIS2 and DORA evidence is generated by the work, not compiled after it.
How it works
Run BIA at strategic, process, service or asset level. Score criticality, model impact curves and define recovery targets per object. KaitoSec uses the same asset and process register as your ISMS, so the BIA stays current without duplicate data entry.
Recovery requirements are generated from your BIA results. Each strategy carries cost, feasibility and resource information and is linked to the protective controls and continuity dependencies it covers. The same data feeds your ISMS, vendor management and reporting.
Structured plans cover roles, escalation, communication, decision authority and dependencies. Plans are versioned, approved, distributed and acknowledged in the same workflow you use for policies, so the plan in force is always the plan people have actually read.
Plan and run tabletop walkthroughs, functional tests and full-scale simulations. Capture execution, findings, lessons learned and follow-up actions. Link exercises back to BC plans and recovery strategies to validate what works and what does not.
Define activation criteria, escalate from operational disruption to crisis, log decisions and communications in real time and keep the right people informed. The crisis log feeds incident reporting under NIS2 and DORA without parallel paperwork.
BCM-specific audits are supported with structured evidence and traceability. Management reviews, exercise outcomes and incident follow-ups feed continuous improvement, so your BCM is a working system rather than a binder in a drawer.
Supported frameworks
KaitoSec