
ICT readiness is a critical part of business continuity because prolonged technology disruption can directly affect essential services, operations, communications, and recovery capability. The ISO/IEC 27031:2025 ICT Readiness for Business Continuity Toolkits provide a structured foundation for planning, governing, and improving ICT continuity arrangements.
The toolkit brings together templates, guidelines, governance documents, readiness assessments, continuity plans, recovery resources, testing records, and practical implementation processes aligned with the updated standard. These materials help teams organise roles, dependencies, recovery priorities, and evidence in a consistent way.
By applying the toolkit, organisations can strengthen operational resilience, improve preparedness for technology disruption, support more effective incident response and recovery, and maintain clearer alignment with ISO/IEC 27031:2025.
- Provide a full end to end documentation suite covering all phases of ICT readiness and continuity.
- Ensure complete alignment with ISO/IEC 27031: 2025 and strong integration with ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27001, and ITIL practices.
- Accelerate implementation by offering ready made, professionally structured templates for every required activity.
- Improve consistency, accuracy, and completeness across policies, plans, registers, and procedures.
- Strengthen governance, roles, accountability, and stakeholder engagement throughout the ICT readiness program.
- Enable efficient BIA, risk assessment, dependency analysis, and strategic decision making.
- Enhance ICT infrastructure visibility through comprehensive inventories and topology documentation.
- Support the design of robust continuity, backup, and recovery strategies for systems, data, and networks.
- Facilitate rapid and coordinated response during ICT incidents, disruptions, and emergencies.
- Improve communication readiness with clear scripts, matrices, and stakeholder management tools.
- Strengthen organizational resilience through structured testing, exercising, validation, and continual improvement.
- Provide defined KPIs, dashboards, audit tools, and maturity assessments for performance monitoring.
- Enable seamless integration with broader BCMS, ISMS, and operational resilience frameworks.
- Support competence development with training materials, awareness plans, and assessment tools.
- Reduce time, cost, and effort required to build a compliant and effective ICT readiness capability from scratch.
Below is a list of documents you will find in the toolkit. Click on index file button to see which templates are included.
| Type | Files List |
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📌 Objective: To establish the mandate, governance structure, roles, and long term direction for ICT readiness to support business continuity. | |
| ICT Readiness for BC Program Charter.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Governance Structure & RACI Matrix.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Roles and Responsibilities Matrix.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement Register.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Policy (ICT-BC Policy).docx | |
| ICT Readiness Strategy & Objectives Statement.docx | |
| Top Management Commitment & Endorsement Form.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Steering Committee Terms of Reference.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Program Roadmap (35 Years).docx | |
| ICT Readiness Communication & Awareness Plan.docx | |
📌 Objective: To define the organizational context, scope, dependencies, and detailed requirements for ICT readiness supporting business continuity. | |
| ICT Readiness Scope Definition Form.docx | |
| Business Context & Dependency Analysis Template.docx | |
| Legal, Regulatory & Contractual Requirements Register (BC/DR).docx | |
| Critical ICT Services Catalogue.docx | |
| ICTBusiness Dependency Mapping Matrix.docx | |
| Internal & External Issues Register (BC Context).docx | |
| Stakeholder Requirements & Expectations Register.docx | |
| Assumptions and Constraints Register for ICT Readiness.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Requirements Traceability Matrix.docx | |
📌 Objective: To assess the business impact of disruptions, determine criticality and recovery objectives, and identify and evaluate ICT risks to business continuity. | |
| BIA Methodology Document.docx | |
| BIA Data Collection Questionnaire.docx | |
| Business Process Inventory & Criticality Rating Sheet.docx | |
| BIA Results Summary Report Template.docx | |
| RTO/RPO Definition & Consolidation Template.docx | |
| Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) Register.docx | |
| ICT Systems Criticality Ranking Matrix.docx | |
| ICT Risk Assessment Methodology (BC Perspective).docx | |
| ICT Risk Register for Business Continuity.docx | |
| ICT Risk Evaluation & Prioritization Matrix.docx | |
| 1Risk Treatment Options & Decision Log.docx | |
📌 Objective: To catalogue ICT assets, services, infrastructure, dependencies, and recovery resources required to support business continuity. | |
| ICT Assets Inventory for Business Continuity Template.docx | |
| ICT Services and Applications Catalogue.docx | |
| Network and Data Center Topology Diagram Template.docx | |
| ICT Dependencies & Single Point of Failure Register.docx | |
| Recovery Resources Inventory (Hardware / Software / Licenses).docx | |
| Alternative Site & Cloud Resources Inventory.docx | |
| Supplier & Third Party BC Capability Register.docx | |
| Vital Records & Data Sets Catalogue.docx | |
📌 Objective: To design and select ICT continuity strategies, technical solutions, and operating models that meet defined recovery objectives and resilience requirements. | |
| ICT Continuity Strategy Options Analysis Template.docx | |
| Technology Recovery Strategy Decision Matrix.docx | |
| Data Backup Strategy Design Worksheet.docx | |
| Redundancy & High Availability Design Checklist.docx | |
| Alternative Site (Hot/Warm/Cold) Evaluation Template.docx | |
| Cloud based Recovery Strategy Assessment Form.docx | |
| Telecommunications & Network Continuity Strategy Template.docx | |
| ICT Workforce & Remote Access Strategy Template.docx | |
| Gap Analysis Current vs Target ICT Readiness Capabilities.docx | |
📌 Objective: To define and manage backup, restore, and data protection practices ensuring recoverability and protection of critical information assets. | |
| Enterprise Backup Policy & Standards.docx | |
| Backup Schedule & Retention Matrix.docx | |
| Critical Data Backup Requirements Register.docx | |
| Backup Job Configuration Checklist.docx | |
| Backup Monitoring & Exception Report Template.docx | |
| Restore Request Form.docx | |
| Backup & Restore Test Plan Template.docx | |
| Backup & Restore Test Report.docx | |
| Backup Failure Incident Log.docx | |
| Off site Storage and Media Handling Register.docx | |
📌 Objective: To develop and maintain ICT service continuity and recovery plans that enable timely restoration of critical ICT services following disruptions. | |
| ICT Service Continuity Plan (ICT SCP) Master Template.docx | |
| System Specific Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| Infrastructure Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| End User Computing Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| Telecommunications & WAN Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| Data Center Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| Cloud Services Recovery Plan Template.docx | |
| Manual Workaround & Fallback Procedures Template.docx | |
| Recovery Priority & Sequence Matrix.docx | |
| Recovery Resource Allocation Plan.docx | |
📌 Objective: To manage ICT incidents and disruptions through defined classification, escalation, decision making, and documentation processes. | |
| ICT Disruption Classification & Escalation Criteria.docx | |
| Incident & Disruption Notification Procedure Template.docx | |
| ICT Disruption Incident Log & Report.docx | |
| Initial Impact Assessment Form.docx | |
| Major Incident / Crisis Declaration Form.docx | |
| Communication Tree & Contact List Template.docx | |
| Incident Command Structure & Roles Card.docx | |
| Situation Report (SITREP) Template.docx | |
| Decision Log & Action Tracker for ICT Disruptions.docx | |
📌 Objective: To ensure timely, consistent, and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders during ICT related emergencies and disruptions. | |
| Emergency Communication Plan for ICT Disruptions.docx | |
| Internal Communication Script Templates.docx | |
| External Communication Script Templates.docx | |
| Stakeholder Notification & Approval Matrix.docx | |
| Communication Channel Readiness Checklist.docx | |
| Call Tree Test Script & Results Log.docx | |
| Key Messages & Q&A Bank for ICT Disruptions.docx | |
📌 Objective: To plan, execute, and evaluate tests and exercises that validate ICT readiness capabilities and drive continual improvement. | |
| ICT Readiness Test & Exercise Policy.docx | |
| Annual ICT BC Test & Exercise Master Plan.docx | |
| Scenario Design Template.docx | |
| Table top Exercise Script Template.docx | |
| Simulation Live Drill Plan Template.docx | |
| Participant Briefing Pack Template.docx | |
| Test Observation & Evidence Log.docx | |
| Test & Exercise Evaluation Report Template.docx | |
| Improvement Actions Tracking Log.docx | |
📌 Objective: To monitor, measure, and report on ICT readiness performance, compliance, and maturity to support informed management decisions. | |
| ICT Readiness KPIs & KRIs Catalogue.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Performance Dashboard Template.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Compliance Checklist.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Internal Audit Checklist.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Internal Audit Report Template.docx | |
| Nonconformity & Corrective Action Report.docx | |
| Monitoring & Review Calendar for ICT Readiness Controls.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Maturity Assessment Questionnaire.docx | |
| Management Review Input Report.docx | |
| Management Review Minutes & Action Plan Template.docx | |
📌 Objective: To align ICT readiness with BCMS, ISMS, and related frameworks through mapping, integrated controls, and coordinated assurance activities. | |
| Mapping Matrix ISO 27031 vs ISO 22301.docx | |
| Mapping Matrix ISO 27031 vs ISO/IEC 27001.docx | |
| Mapping Matrix ISO 27031 vs IT Service Continuity / ITIL Practices.docx | |
| Integrated BCMSISMSICT Readiness Control Catalogue.docx | |
| Cross Framework Compliance Register.docx | |
| Joint Exercise & Audit Coordination Plan Template.docx | |
📌 Objective: To define, deliver, and track ICT readiness training, awareness, competence, and continual learning activities across the organization. | |
| ICT Readiness Competence Requirements Matrix.docx | |
| Training Needs Analysis for ICT Readiness Roles.docx | |
| ICT Readiness Annual Training Plan.docx | |
| Training Material ICT Readiness Overview.docx | |
| Training Attendance & Evaluation Form.docx | |
| Post Training Knowledge Assessment Questionnaire.docx | |
| Awareness Campaign Plan.docx | |
| Staff Acknowledgement of BC/ICT Readiness Responsibilities.docx | |
| Periodic Review Checklist ICT Readiness Plans & Procedures.docx | |
| Post Incident Review Report Template.docx | |
| Trend Analysis Report Disruptions, Test Results, Near Misses.docx | |
| Action Tracking Register.docx | |
| Program Re scoping & Re prioritization Form.docx | |
| Annual Management Report on ICT Readiness for Business Continuity.docx | |
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