The Central Bank of Egypt's and the Financial Regulatory Authority's resilience requirements, and how ADVOX helps Egyptian organisations put them into practice.
The central bank's cybersecurity framework for banks. Continuity, incident response and recovery arrangements should be designed to work alongside it.
Central Bank of Egypt ↗In July 2025 the CBE announced a set of regulatory directives to reinforce banks’ risk management frameworks and operational resilience. Banks should confirm the detailed requirements with the CBE.
Central Bank of Egypt ↗Issued 23 October 2025, building on FRA Resolution No. 139 of 2023. It requires specified entities to upgrade technology and information systems, adopt board-approved IT governance, IT risk and cybersecurity frameworks, run periodic penetration tests and hold cyber insurance. Compliance is a licence condition, with six months for infrastructure upgrades and twelve for other requirements (insurers excluded).
Financial Regulatory Authority ↗The international management-system standard for business continuity, used by organisations in Egypt to structure and certify BCM programmes.
ISO 22301 overviewExamples from the last ten years of the kinds of events a business continuity programme should plan for.
The container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for about six days, delaying hundreds of vessels and disrupting supply chains worldwide.
BCM lesson: Map single points of failure in your supply chain and plan alternative routes and stock buffers.
Gas shortages led to load-shedding, with daily outages of up to three hours until the cuts were halted in July 2024, affecting shops, offices and factories.
BCM lesson: Plan for loss of utilities: backup power, fuel arrangements and the ability to work remotely.
The National ↗Damage to Red Sea cables slowed internet services across the Middle East and Asia in February 2024 and again in September 2025. Egypt is a major landing point for these cables.
BCM lesson: Use more than one internet provider and route, and test cloud and remote-access fallbacks.
The National ↗BCI CBCI certification training and specialist courses in business continuity, incident response, crisis management and resilience.
Tailored awareness and role-based training for leadership, continuity teams, business owners and operational staff.
A structured review of your BCM programme against the central-bank or sector rules that apply to you, with a prioritised plan to close the gaps.
Scenario-based exercises, plan validation, programme reviews, maturity assessments and continual-improvement support.
Business continuity standards, central-bank rules and other regulatory requirements for the countries ADVOX supports.
