ASIS International had formed a Technical Committee to develop a Business Continuity Standard for the United States. This committee is made up of over 160 people from around the world, who are Business Continuity Management practictioners, standards developers and members of Business Continuity Institutions such as DRII. A subset of this committee has been selected to come together as a working group to write the new standard based on committee input. Lisa DuBrock, Radian Compliance’s Managing Partner, is not only a member of the Technical Committee, but has been selected to be a member of the working committee. The first meeting is set for next week, January 15th and 16th in Arlington, Virginia.
The committee has been soliciting initial comments from practictioners world-wide to be used by the working group when developing the new standard. These comments are due 1/9/09. ASIS has also decided that they will utilize BS 25999 as a starting point for this standard. As a Technical Expert for BSI Management Systems, the certifying body for BS 25999, Lisa is excited that this standard will be recognized as the jumping off point for this effort.
Lisa will provide an update to this blog upon her return next week from Arlington. Until then…be safe.
