CPS 230 para 44 Tailoring of the Testing Program
The testing program must be tailored to the material risks of the entity and include a range of severe but plausible scenarios, among them disruptions to services provided by material service providers and scenarios requ
3
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence of service provider disruption scenarios · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Scenario library with rationale linking scenarios to material risks · Document repository
- Contingency arrangement scenarios and results · Document repository
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Same scenarios repeated each year
- Material service provider failure never exercised
Do this for your whole sheet
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.
Build my evidence sheetCPS 230 para 43 Systematic BCP Testing Program · CPS 230 para 45 Annual Update of the Business Continuity Plan