What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on BCR-10 Response Plan Exercise?

Disaster response exercise schedule and reports; Records of invitations to or participation by local emergency authorities; After-action reports and improvement actions; Evidence of exercise after significant change.

What is the most common gap auditors find on BCR-10?

Exercises never involve emergency services even where feasible

CSA CCM v4.1 · BCR - Business Continuity Management and Operational Resilience

`BCR-10` Response Plan Exercise

The disaster response plan is exercised once a year or upon significant changes, with local emergency services taking part where that can be arranged.

Source: CSA CCM v4.1, BCR-10. 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 CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.

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

Disaster response exercise schedule and reports · Document repository
Records of invitations to or participation by local emergency authorities · Document repository
Evidence of exercise after significant change · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

After-action reports and improvement actions · 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

Exercises never involve emergency services even where feasible
Exercise reports lack findings or follow-up
Plan untested for more than a year

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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BCR-09 Disaster Response Plan · BCR-11 Equipment Redundancy