CP-9 System Backup
Conduct backups of user-level, system-level, and security-related documentation; FedRAMP-defined frequency (daily incremental, weekly full).
6
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
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
- Alternate processing site contract and capacity attestation · Vendor register / contract repository
- Restoration test logs with success criteria signed off · Backup / DR tooling
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Control implementation statement for CP-9 citing the system mission and inheritance from common controls · Document repository
- Business impact analysis identifying critical systems · 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
- Alternate site capacity not validated against current load
- Plan not updated after major architecture changes
- Backups taken but restore tests never performed end to end
- RTO and RPO targets undefined for tier two systems
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-8(2) Telecommunications Services | Single Points of Failure. Obtain alternate telecommunications services to reduce the likelihood of sharing a single point of failure with primary telecommunications services · CP-9(1) Testing for Reliability and Integrity