Monitoring

1. Monitoring is the supervision of the progress of a system, a process or an activity to ensure that it is on-course and on-schedule in meeting the objectives and performance as specified in the BCMS. BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 1B: Foundation (BC) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 3D: Advanced (DR) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 2A: Intermediate (BCM Audit) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 3A: Advanced (BCM Audit) (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. Determining the status of a system, a process or an activity.

Note : To determine the status there may be a need to check, supervise or critically observe.

(Source: ISO 22301:2012 – Societal Security – Business Continuity Management Systems - Requirements) - clause 3.29

3. Continual checking, supervising, critically observing or determining the status in order to identify change from the performance level required or expected. Notes (1) : Monitoring can be applied to a risk management framework (2.3), risk management process (2.8), risk (2.1) or control (2.26). [ISO Guide 73:2009, definition 3.8.2.1] (Source: ISO 31000:2009 – Risk Management — Principles and Guidelines) - clause 2.28