EvidenceSheet
ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) · Regular backups

BACKUP-ISM-1511 Backups of data, applications and settings are performed and retained in accordance with business criticality…

Backups of data, applications and settings are performed and retained in accordance with business criticality and business continuity requirements. Required at Maturity Levels One, Two and Three of the Regular backups mitigation strategy (Appendices A, B and C); ISM control ISM-1511 in ASD's Essential Eight to ISM mapping (December 2023).

Source: ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023), BACKUP-ISM-1511. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) in the compliance library.

Each row is an ISM control the maturity model requires, with the maturity levels named in its text. Pick your target maturity level and use the rows for it.

2
artefacts
0
held by a system
0
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Backup policy setting frequency and retention by business criticality and continuity requirements · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Backup job reports matching the policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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