Business Continuity Plan
What is Business Continuity Plan?
A documented strategy defining how an organization will continue to operate during and after a significant disruption to its normal business operations.
Terms that appear alongside business continuity plan
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as business continuity plan. The number is how many controls name both.
- disaster recovery 8 shared controls
- disruption 7 shared controls
- incident response 6 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
- iso 22301 5 shared controls
- resilience 5 shared controls
- lessons learned 5 shared controls
- recovery point objective 4 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on business continuity plan
Requirements naming business continuity plan across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The organization needs a response structure supported by business continuity plans and procedures to control its response to disruption, communicate effectively with interested parties and use its business continuity solutions to continue activities within the...
iso-22313-2020-guidance-on-business-continuity-management-systems::8.4.1 · 8.4.1 Business continuity plans and procedures: general →Entities under Article 16(1) must test their business continuity plans and scenarios at least yearly for backup and restore procedures and on every major plan change, showing they can sustain the business until critical operations are restored and identifying...
dora-rts-on-ict-risk-management-framework-commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2024-1774::40 · Article 40: Testing of business continuity plans (simplified framework) →A participant must establish, implement and maintain business continuity plans for major events (with event types, triggers, impact, severity classification, escalation, recovery objectives, communications and dependencies), notify ASIC immediately on becoming...
asic-market-integrity-rules-securities-markets-2017-australia::8B.4.1 · Maintain and test business continuity plans and notify ASIC of major events →Continuity is tested regularly so plans are exercised against outcomes set in advance, resilience is maintained and new solutions can emerge: objectives are set for exercising and testing the plan's technical, business, administrative, logistical, operational...
cobit-2019::DSS04.04 · DSS04.04 Exercise, test and review the business continuity plan (BCP) and disaster response plan (DRP) →Maintain a response structure and a set of plans and procedures that let the organization warn and communicate, respond in a structured way, continue prioritized activities and return to normal operation.
iso-22301-2019::8.4 · Business continuity plans and procedures →Requirement 0055 (Part Two: Risk, section 8.3 Contingency Planning; applies to All entities; dated 31 October 2024; retained from Release 2025): A business continuity plan is developed, implemented and maintained to respond effectively and minimise the impacts...
protective-security-policy-framework-pspf-release-2026::0055 · 0055 Business continuity plan for critical services and assets →Questions people ask about business continuity plan
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