EvidenceSheet
APRA CPS 230 · Business continuity (paras 33 to 45)

CPS 230 para 43 Tailored test scenarios including material service provider disruption

The testing program must reflect the entity's material risks and use varied severe yet plausible scenarios, among them disruption to services from material service providers and situations where contingency arrangements have to be used. APRA may require an APRA-determined scenario to be included in an exercise for an entity or class of entities.

Source: APRA CPS 230, CPS 230 para 43. 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 APRA CPS 230 in the compliance library.

Applies to APRA-regulated entities.

4
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
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

  • Exercise records for scenarios involving a material service provider outage · Document repository
  • Evidence of contingency arrangements invoked in tests · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Scenario library mapped to the entity's material risks · Document repository
  • Any APRA-specified scenario and the exercise results for it · 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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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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CPS 230 para 42 Systematic BCP testing program with an annual exercise · CPS 230 para 44 Annual BCP update