Halderstone Audit Services

Business Continuity Management Audits

Independent assessments of business continuity governance, management systems, capabilities, and resilience arrangements

Halderstone Audit Services

Business Continuity Management Audits

Independent assessments of business continuity governance, management systems, capabilities, and resilience arrangements

Auditor and site representative review continuity arrangements during a resilience-focused walk-through in an operational facility.

Understand whether your continuity arrangements work in practice

Assess whether governance structures, continuity plans, response capabilities, and recovery arrangements are operating as intended across your organisation.

Auditor and site representative review continuity arrangements during a resilience-focused walk-through in an operational facility.

Understand whether your continuity arrangements work in practice

Assess whether governance structures, continuity plans, response capabilities, and recovery arrangements are operating as intended across your organisation.

Auditor and site representative review continuity arrangements during a resilience-focused walk-through in an operational facility.
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How we support you

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Why Halderstone

Why Halderstone

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How we support you

Business disruptions can arise from cyber incidents, technology failures, supplier issues, natural hazards, or other unexpected events.

Independent audits help organisations understand whether business continuity governance, continuity capabilities, and resilience arrangements are designed appropriately and operating effectively.

Assessments can focus on entire business continuity management systems, selected business units, continuity capabilities, suppliers, critical services, or specific regulatory obligations.

Audit contexts

  • Internal audits

  • Readiness assessments

  • Supplier resilience assessments

  • Continuity capability reviews

  • Regulatory compliance reviews

  • Integrated audits

Supported frameworks

  • ISO 22301

  • ISO 22313

  • NIST SP 800-34

  • DORA

  • Organisation-specific continuity frameworks

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A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

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Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

Schedule a call

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Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

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Why Halderstone

Our approach

  • Audit planning informed by risks, objectives, and the intended use of audit results

  • Audit activities aligned with recognized auditing principles and guidance, including ISO 19011 where appropriate

  • Findings based on objective evidence obtained through interviews, documentation review, observation, and sampling

  • Conclusions supported by corroboration across multiple evidence sources and audit methods

  • Practical reporting focused on decision-making, assurance, and continual improvement

What we deliberately do not do

  • Mandates that compromise auditor independence

  • Audit engagements where we influence the selection of samples, evidence, or interview partners

  • Conclusions based solely on interviews without corroborating evidence

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Auditing Business Impact Analysis

Assess whether business impact analyses produce credible recovery priorities and recovery objectives in an ISO 22301 BCMS

7 h

Auditing Business Impact Analysis

Assess whether business impact analyses produce credible recovery priorities and recovery objectives in an ISO 22301 BCMS

7 h

Auditing Business Continuity Implementation & Readiness

Evaluate whether continuity strategies, operational readiness and exercising provide credible recovery capability in an ISO 22301 BCMS

7 h

Auditing Business Continuity Implementation & Readiness

Evaluate whether continuity strategies, operational readiness and exercising provide credible recovery capability in an ISO 22301 BCMS

7 h

Business Impact Analysis

Perform ISO 22301-aligned business impact analysis, identify critical activities, and define time-based recovery requirements

7 h

Business Continuity Strategies & Solutions

Evaluate continuity strategy options, design continuity solutions, and apply decision criteria aligned with ISO 22301 time-based requirements

7 h

Business Continuity Preparedness & Response

Structure continuity plans, define response roles and communications, and design exercises aligned with continuity requirements

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

7 h

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

7 h

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

7 h

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

7 h

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

7 h

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

7 h

Leading with Management Systems

Use management systems to drive performance, risk control and organisational credibility beyond certification

1.5 h

Leading with Management Systems in Practice

Apply executive judgement to turn management systems into drivers of reliability, trust and strategic performance

3 h

System Framing

Analyse organisational context, stakeholders and system boundaries to support effective management systems

7 h

System Leadership

Define clear policy direction and accountability through effective leadership responsibilities in management systems

7 h

Policy Management

Design coherent, auditable policy frameworks that align with strategy, scale across entities, and stay current without excess bureaucracy

7 h

Governance Design

Build the decision rights, governance meetings, escalation paths and evidence trails that make management systems work in practice

12 h

Resource Management

Ensure management systems are supported with sufficient people, time, budget, infrastructure and external support

7 h

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We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Contact us

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Contact us

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