BSI Issues BS 25777 for IT Disaster Recovery
The British Standards Institution (BSi) recently unveiled a draft code of practice, BS 25777, to address disaster recovery and continuity issues associated with information and communications technology (ICT). The draft document, available for a small fee, is currently out for public comment until October 17, 2008. BS 25777 supersedes Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 77, which addressed the same issues. It is designed to address IT issues not currently covered in BS 25999, the British standard for business continuity management (BCM).
Curiously, a review of BS 25777 shows it to be very similar in content to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 24762:2008, which was published early in 2008. While there will certainly be subtle differences between the two documents, it remains a mystery that the BSi would issue a proposed British standard that is similar to an already published international standard.
The document can be obtained by clicking here. To comment on the draft document, please click here.
