Glossary
What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)?
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is the holistic process of identifying threats to an organisation and building the capability to keep critical operations running through disruption.
BCM is a management discipline — not a one-off document. It runs a repeating lifecycle: understand the organisation, analyse business impact, treat risk, design continuity strategies, write and approve plans, exercise them, and improve after incidents.
ISO 22301 is the international standard that defines a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). Regulations such as DORA (EU financial sector) and NIS2 (EU essential and important entities) make parts of BCM legally mandatory.
In Resilira, BCM is the whole product: context, BIA, risk, plans, exercises, incidents and compliance are connected so structured data flows through every stage instead of living in disconnected Word and Excel files.
Put the theory to work.
Resilira turns these concepts into a running program — BIA, plans and compliance, audit-ready in days.