Framework overlap

Does ISO/IEC 38500:2024 cover ISO 22301:2019?

You hold ISO/IEC 38500:2024 and have been told to do ISO 22301:2019. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

54% of ISO 22301:2019 you already have

ISO/IEC 38500:2024 already covers about 54% of ISO 22301:2019, leaving 18 of 39 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 6 Likely covered 15 New work 18

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.1
Continual improvement
10.2
Nonconformity and corrective action
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
4.3
Determining the scope of the management system
5.1
Leadership and commitment
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.2
Objectives and planning to achieve them
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.2.2
Business impact analysis
8.3.2
Identification of strategies and solutions
8.3.3
Selection of strategies and solutions
8.3.4
Resource requirements
8.4.3
Warning and communication
8.4.4
Business continuity plans
8.4.5
Recovery
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
Show the 21 you already have
5.2
Policy
6.1.3
Risk treatment
7.1
Resources
8.4.2
Response structure
8.5
Exercise programme
9.3
Management review
4.4
Management system
5.3
Roles, responsibilities and authorities
6.1.2
Risk assessment
7.2
Competence
7.3
Awareness
7.4
Communication
7.5
Documented information
7.5.2
Creating and updating
8.2
Business impact analysis and risk assessment
8.2.3
Risk assessment
8.3
Business continuity strategies and solutions
8.3.5
Implementation of solutions
8.4
Business continuity plans and procedures
8.6
Evaluation of business continuity documentation and capabilities
9.2
Internal audit

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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