What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on BCM-02 Business impact analysis policies and instructions?

Business impact analysis methodology document; Completed analysis listing critical products and services with their dependencies; Recorded recovery time and recovery point objectives per critical service; Threat and scenario catalogue used as input to the analysis.

What is the most common gap auditors find on BCM-02?

Recovery objectives set without reference to the maximum tolerable outage

BSI C5 (121-criteria catalogue) · C5: Business Continuity Management

`BCM-02` Business impact analysis policies and instructions

Document, communicate and provide business impact analysis rules covering risk based scenarios, critical products and services, dependencies, threats, effects of planned and unplanned outages over time, maximum tolerable outage, restoration priorities, recovery time and data loss targets, and resources needed to resume.

Source: BSI C5 (121-criteria catalogue), BCM-02. 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 BSI C5 (121-criteria catalogue) in the compliance library.

The edition of the catalogue is not stamped here; check the edition your attestation is issued against.

artefacts

held by a system

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

Completed analysis listing critical products and services with their dependencies · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Business impact analysis methodology document · Document repository
Recorded recovery time and recovery point objectives per critical service · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Threat and scenario catalogue used as input to the analysis · Document repository

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

Recovery objectives set without reference to the maximum tolerable outage
Dependencies on external partners omitted from the analysis
Analysis lists internal systems rather than the services customers depend on
Resources required for resumption never quantified

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.

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BCM-01 Top management responsibility · BCM-03 Planning business continuity