ISO 22398:2013, Societal security – Guidelines for exercises, is an international standard published by International Organization for Standardization that provide guidelines to be used for organizations that want to plan, conduct and improve exercises.
[1][2][3] It can be used by all types and sizes of organizations, no matter whether they are private or public or what kind of business they operate .
[4][5][6] ISO 22398 includes the following main clauses:[7] Annex A Exercises within a management system description Annex B Needs analysis Annex C National strategic exercises Annex D Exercise enhancement This standard was originally developed by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 223 on societal security and published for the first time in September 2013.
[8] ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience took over the responsibility of the work when ISO/TC 223 was dissolved and initiated a revision of the standard.
The standard was last reviewed and confirmed in 2022, therefore version 22398:2013 remains current.