Disruption does not announce itself. A cyberattack, a supply chain collapse, a regulatory shock, a pandemic. The organizations that survive and recover fastest are not the ones that got lucky. They are the ones who built resilience into their structure, their culture, and their decision-making long before the disruption arrived.
ISO 22316 is the international guidance standard that defines what genuine organizational resilience looks like. We provide independent assessments of organizational resilience frameworks against ISO 22316:2017 principles, giving your organization the impartial third-party evidence of resilience maturity that boards, investors, and regulators genuinely trust.
ISO 22316:2017 is the international standard for Security and Resilience focused on Organizational Resilience Principles and Attributes. Published by the International Organization for Standardization, it provides guidance to help organizations of any size enhance their capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to disruption.
The standard defines organizational resilience as the ability of an organization to absorb and adapt in a changing environment to deliver its objectives and survive and prosper. It identifies the principles and attributes that characterize resilient organizations and provides the framework for assessing and developing resilience across every dimension of organizational capability.
ISO 22316 is a guidance standard rather than a certifiable standard. Formal third-party certification is not available. What organizations can obtain is an independent assessment and verification of how comprehensively ISO 22316 principles have been embedded across their resilience framework.
The core principles are:
Shared vision and clarity of purpose ensure everyone understands the organization's direction and why resilience matters.
Leadership that supports resilience means senior leadership actively promotes resilience as a strategic priority.
A culture that supports resilience recognizes that behaviors and attitudes at every level determine whether an organization truly acts resiliently under pressure.
Shared information and knowledge ensure the right information reaches the right people at the right time, enabling faster decisions during disruption.
Availability of resources addresses whether your organization has the financial, human, and information resources needed to maintain critical functions under stress.
Coordinated management disciplines examine how well your resilience functions, including risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and security work together rather than in silos.
Continual improvement requires that your organization systematically learns from disruptions, exercises, and uses those lessons to strengthen resilience over time.
ISO 22316 provides the overarching organizational resilience framework within which more specific standards operate. ISO 22301 addresses Business Continuity Management Systems and provides the certifiable requirements for maintaining critical functions during disruption. ISO 31000 provides the risk management principles that inform how risks to resilience are identified and treated. ISO 27001 protects the information assets that resilient organizations depend on.
ISO 22316 gives the strategic resilience direction. The related standards provide the operational mechanisms. Together, they create a comprehensive, integrated resilience governance framework.
Certification cost varies depending on organization size, operational complexity, resilience disciplines within scope, and the maturity of your existing framework. Contact our team for a tailored assessment proposal based on your specific organization and scope.
Disruption will come. The question is whether your organization has the verified, documented resilience capability to absorb it, adapt to it, and keep moving forward.
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