Contingency Plan
What is Contingency Plan?
A plan for maintaining or restoring business operations when disruptive events occur, covering both prevention and recovery activities.
Terms that appear alongside contingency plan
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as contingency plan. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 9 shared controls
- fedramp 6 shared controls
- plan testing 4 shared controls
- incident response 4 shared controls
- information system 3 shared controls
- fips 3 shared controls
- authorization 3 shared controls
- disruption 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern contingency plan
What the standards actually require on contingency plan
Requirements naming contingency plan across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Develop contingency plan; review and update annually (FedRAMP); coordinate with related plans.
CP-2 · Contingency Plan →Develop contingency plan; review and update annually (FedRAMP); coordinate with related plans.
CP-2 · Contingency Plan →Develop the Information System Contingency Plan (ISCP) per NIST SP 800-34 Rev 1 Section 3.5 + Appendix A (Sample ISCP Template). ISCP must include (a) Supporting Information per Section 3.5.1: introduction + concept of operations + system description and archi...
NISTSP34-4 · Information System Contingency Plan (ISCP) Development →Develop contingency plan; review and update annually (FedRAMP); coordinate with related plans.
CP-2 · Contingency Plan →Develop contingency plan; review and update annually (FedRAMP); coordinate with related plans.
CP-2 · Contingency Plan →Establish policies for responding to emergencies that damage ePHI systems. NIST recommends contingency planning per SP 800-34 with business impact analysis driving recovery priorities.
164.308(a)(7)(i) · Contingency Plan (Standard) →Questions people ask about contingency plan
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