BCR-03 Business Continuity Strategy
Choose continuity strategies that bring the effect of a disruption inside the stated risk appetite, covering how the organisation will absorb, withstand and recover from the event.
4
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 the strategy meets the recovery objectives from the impact analysis · Policy repository / GRC workspace
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Documented continuity strategies with the option analysis behind each · Document repository
- The stated risk appetite the strategies were tested against · Document repository
- Approval of the chosen strategies by an accountable authority · 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
- Strategy that cannot in fact meet the stated recovery objectives
- Risk appetite never stated, so nothing anchors the choice
- Strategy chosen on cost alone with no resilience analysis
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 sheetBCR-02 Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis · BCR-04 Business Continuity Planning