CP-6 Alternate Storage Site
Establish alternate storage site with agreements to permit storage and retrieval of system backup information.
5
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
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
- Annual tabletop and full failover test reports · Backup / DR tooling
- Alternate processing site contract and capacity attestation · Vendor register / contract repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Control implementation statement for CP-6 citing the system mission and inheritance from common controls · Document repository
- Contingency plan with recovery time and recovery point objectives · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Backup schedule, retention, and offsite or immutable copy evidence · Policy repository / GRC workspace
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
- Tabletop exercises lack participation from business owners
- Alternate site capacity not validated against current load
- Plan not updated after major architecture changes
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 sheetCP-4(2) Alternate Processing Site · CP-6(1) Alternate Storage Site | Separation from Primary Site. Identify an alternate storage site that is sufficiently separated from the primary storage site to reduce susceptibility to the same threats