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Impact Analysis

What is Impact Analysis?

The assessment of the potential consequences of a risk event, security incident, or system change on business operations, finances, and reputation.

Risk Management

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as impact analysis. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on impact analysis

Requirements naming impact analysis across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

ISO 22301:20198 controls

Run and maintain the processes that establish what disruption would cost the organization over time and what could cause it, and refresh both whenever the organization or its operating context changes significantly.

iso-22301-2019::8.2 · Business impact analysis and risk assessment
ISO 223176 controls

Business impact analysis methodology. Control from ISO 22317 framework, domain: ISO 22317: Business Impact Analysis.

ISO22317-06 · Business impact analysis methodology
ISO 223165 controls

Business impact analysis methodology. Control from ISO 22316 framework, domain: ISO 22316: Business Impact Analysis.

ISO22316-06 · Business impact analysis methodology
ISO 223185 controls

Business impact analysis methodology. Control from ISO 22318 framework, domain: ISO 22318: Business Impact Analysis.

ISO22318-06 · Business impact analysis methodology
C5 (Germany)4 controls

Document, communicate and provide business impact analysis rules covering risk based scenarios, critical products and services, dependencies, threats, effects of planned and unplanned outages over time, maximum tolerable outage, restoration priorities, recover...

C5-BCM-02 · Business impact analysis policies and instructions

Conduct risk assessment and business impact analysis to identify likelihood and consequences of disruptive events.

SPC1-4.3.1 · Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis

Questions people ask about impact analysis

What is Impact Analysis?
The assessment of the potential consequences of a risk event, security incident, or system change on business operations, finances, and reputation.
Why is Impact Analysis important for compliance?
Impact Analysis is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding impact analysis helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Impact Analysis?
Impact Analysis appears in the requirement text of ISO 22301:2019, ISO 22317, ISO 22316, ISO 22318, C5 (Germany). Across these standards we have identified 30 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Impact Analysis?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how impact analysis applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Impact Analysis applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.