Business Continuity Management Standard BS25999 draft available July

Your chance to review and comment on BS25999

The draft stand for the new British Standard BS 25999 titled "Guide of Practice for Business Continuity Management" will commence the public comment stage during early July.

The Standard has been developed from the work of the technical committee formed in August of 2005 and this public consultation on the draft standard marks one of the final steps ahead of the final publication of BS25999 (Part 1).

The public comment stage will last 60 days and once closed all submissions will be reviewed by the committee. There will be a standard form for all submissions on the draft standard which will shortly be available from the BSI. With the degree of interest likely in the draft, and the time required to review all comments the BSI now hopes to publish BS25999-1 in the late Autumn.

Work on Part 2, which importantly establishes the control framework for the standard, will start in July 2006 and the committee expects to publish this in early 2007.

The Continuity Forum will continue working with the BSI committee throughout this period and we'll be running a number of supporting events aimed at helping organizations to understand and manage their transition to the new standard. For more information on this topic please contact us directly.