The contours of business disruption are changing. It can start with a ransomware incident, an identity compromise, a supplier outage, or a prolonged cloud failure in one unit, then spread across connected systems. Disruption can simultaneously affect operations, customer access, compliance and supplier relations.
This is why the backbone of business continuity is cyber resilience.
At its core, business continuity is also a risk management issue, as it also depends on how well an organization understands its critical processes, information dependencies, supplier exposure, cloud reliance, risk appetite, recovery priorities, and ability to operate when systems or data cannot be fully trusted.
The ISF Standard of Good Practice (SOGP) 2026 is an information security framework that covers this shift. It asks organizations to connect business continuity with governance, information risk, system resilience, security incident management, and testing to sufficiently align continuity with risk management.
Continuity Starts with Governance
