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Crisis Management Plan

What is Crisis Management Plan?

A documented guide for responding to major disruptions, defining leadership roles, communication protocols, and decision-making processes during a crisis.

Business Continuity

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as crisis management plan. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on crisis management plan

Requirements naming crisis management plan across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The bank documents a Cyber Crisis Management Plan forming part of the Board-approved cybersecurity framework.

rbi-cybersecurity-framework-for-banks::192 · Para 192: documented Cyber Crisis Management Plan within the Board framework →

The corporate disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management plans take cyber incidents into account as an integrated matter.

ffiec-cybersecurity-assessment-tool-cat::D5.IR.Pl.E.2 · D5.IR.Pl.E.2 Planning (Evolving 2) →

Advanced control principles for governance and preparation of incident response and recovery (required, with baseline and intermediate, of an AI whose inherent risk is high).

hkma-cyber-resilience-assessment-framework-c-raf::5.1.A · 5.1 Governance and preparation of incident response and recovery: advanced level →

Preparedness. The organization should make its crisis team structure resilient by naming a primary and an alternate for each function, and make sure every member is trained, competent and resourced;

iso-22361-2022::5.3.4 · Preparedness →

The exercise types the standard describes are: the alert exercise (testing the alerting mechanism and participants' response); the start-up exercise (testing and developing the ability to activate an appropriate response, following an alert exercise);

iso-22398-2013::5.2.12 · Exercise types →

Key activities: the response team reviews whether the incident is under control; if so it instigates the required response, immediate (activating recovery procedures, communicating to involved personnel) or later (facilitating full recovery), keeping all infor...

iso-iec-27035-1-2023::5.5 · Respond →

Questions people ask about crisis management plan

What is Crisis Management Plan?
A documented guide for responding to major disruptions, defining leadership roles, communication protocols, and decision-making processes during a crisis.
Why is Crisis Management Plan important for compliance?
Crisis Management Plan is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding crisis management plan helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Crisis Management Plan?
Crisis Management Plan appears in the requirement text of RBI Cybersecurity Framework for Banks, FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), ISO 22361:2022, ISO 22398:2013. Across these standards we have identified 8 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Crisis Management Plan?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how crisis management plan applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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