5.2 Policy
Maintain a business continuity policy that top management has set and that reaches the people inside the organization and the interested parties outside it who need to see it.
3
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
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
- Distribution and communication records · Policy repository / GRC workspace
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Current approved business continuity policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Evidence the policy is obtainable by interested parties where appropriate · 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
- Policy approved once and left unreviewed through several reorganisations
- Policy published on an intranet nobody is directed to
- No decision recorded about which interested parties should receive it
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 sheet5.1 Leadership and commitment · 5.2.1 Establishing the business continuity policy