Overview
EN ISO 22300:2025 - Security and resilience - Vocabulary is a vocabulary standard (adopted by CEN as EN ISO 22300:2025) that defines generic terms used across security, resilience, risk and management-system topics. Published as the fourth edition in 2025, this document provides a common language profile to improve consistency and clarity in policy, planning and operations across public authorities, private organisations and standardization work.
Key facts:
- Title: Security and resilience - Vocabulary (ISO 22300:2025)
- Prepared by ISO/TC 292 in collaboration with CEN/TC 391; approved by CEN November 2025
- Fourth edition, supersedes ISO 22300:2021
- Purpose: define and harmonize terminology for security and resilience disciplines
Key topics and technical content
EN ISO 22300:2025 focuses on terminology and does not contain normative technical requirements. Main content areas include:
- Terms related to security and resilience - e.g., acute shock, affected area, after-action report, alert, all-clear, all-hazards approach, business continuity, crisis, disaster, disruption, emergency, evacuation, early warning, command and control, civil protection.
- Terms related to risk - structured definitions linking events, impacts, vulnerabilities and risk concepts (sectioned separately in the standard).
- Terms related to management systems - vocabulary for processes, plans and management activities (business continuity management, business impact analysis, exercises, drills).
- Document structure and editorial changes - the 2025 edition revises structure for clarity, removes overly specific terms, updates definitions to be more generic and adds terms from recently published documents.
Practical applications
EN ISO 22300:2025 is a reference vocabulary that supports:
- Consistent drafting and interpretation of standards, regulations and contracts in security and resilience domains
- Development and harmonization of business continuity plans (BCP), emergency plans, disaster risk reduction strategies and training materials
- Cross‑agency and cross‑border coordination by providing shared terminology for incident, crisis and emergency management
- Procurement, auditing and compliance activities where precise definitions reduce ambiguity
- Translation and multilingual documentation efforts (official versions in EN/FR/DE; national translations possible)
Who should use this standard
- Emergency managers, business continuity and resilience professionals
- Risk managers and safety officers
- National and local authorities (civil protection, public safety)
- Standard developers, policy makers, trainers and auditors
- Organisations requiring consistent terminology across operations, contracts and international cooperation
Related standards
- EN ISO 22300 complements other ISO/TC 292 standards (business continuity, incident/crisis management and resilience frameworks) by supplying harmonized terminology that underpins implementation and compliance.
Keywords: EN ISO 22300:2025, security and resilience vocabulary, business continuity, emergency management, disaster risk reduction, terminology standard, ISO/TC 292.
