Editing Business continuity planning (section)

===Continuity===
Plans and procedures are used in business continuity planning to ensure that the critical organizational operations required to keep an organization running continue to operate during events when key dependencies of operations are disrupted. Continuity does not need to apply to every activity which the organization undertakes. For example, under [[ISO 22301|ISO 22301:2019]], organizations are required to define their business continuity objectives, the minimum levels of product and service operations which will be considered acceptable and the [[#Maximum RTO|maximum tolerable period of disruption]] (MTPD) which can be allowed.<ref>ISO, [https://www.bsigroup.com/globalassets/Documents/iso-22301/resources/iso-22301-implementation-guide-2016.pdf ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management: Your implementation guide], published, accessed 20 February 2021</ref>

A major cost in planning for this is the preparation of audit compliance management documents; automation tools are available to reduce the time and cost associated with manually producing this information.